Abortions and Reasoning Skills Declining

In a not-so-shocking news article, the total number of yearly abortions is dropping.*

In a more shocking blow to journalism, the Washington post reported the following:

The number of abortions fell at least in part because the proportion of women ending their pregnancies with an abortion dropped 9 percent between 2000 and 2005

There can certainly be no argument with that statement -- the number of abortions have dropped because less women are getting abortions. Of course, the WaPo is not even that bold; it hedges a little, saying that this is at least part of the reason abortions are down.

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* Not-so-shocking because of the rise of other means to the same end like RU-486. There were some recent statistics compiled by Guttmacher (too lazy to find link) saying that the number of abortions in Nebraska had recently been decreasing 5% every year, but the use of RU-486 had been increasing 20% yearly during the same period. To be fair, the WaPo does mention this as another potential factor in the reduced number of abortions in addition to the fact that women are getting less abortions.