It fell in the 1970s and early 1980s while the abortion rate was rising.

And yet abortion rates are now at their lowest since 1975.

Those numbers usually come from single studies that indeed demonstrate an abortion rate around 90%.

In Italy, for example, the abortion rate fell by 40% between 1980 and 1998.

In two or three months' time the abortion rate will go up.

Research has shown that these are no guarantee for a low abortion rate.

These are practical steps for cutting the nation's abortion rate.

Many are troubled by our abortion rate, more than twice that of any other Western nation.

Births and abortion rates increased at about the same time.

Now the Russian government is attempting to slow the abortion rate.