Anti-Abortion Movement Calls This Success

In the U.S.legislative changes (parental notification) and lobbying by the Anti-Abortion movement, the physical and deadly attacks on abortion clinics and doctors by religious terrorists, along with the neo-con welfare reforms introduced by Clinton aimed a single mothers, has resulted in this...... Survey Shows Unwanted Births Up

More American women are having babies they didn't want, a survey indicates.

U.S. women of childbearing age who were surveyed in 2002 revealed that 14 percent of their recent births were unwanted at the time of conception, federal researchers said Monday.

In a similar 1995 survey, only 9 percent were unwanted at the time of conception.

The latest findings are consistent with the falling rate of abortions, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a New York-based nonprofit group that researches reproductive health issues.

Finer suggested the shift may reflect not only a diminishing demand for abortions, but also a decline in abortion providers, Finer said.

The number of U.S. abortion providers fell steadily in the last decade, from 2,400 in 1992 to 1,800 in 2000. The reason is not clearly known, although increasing government restrictions of abortions have made it increasingly difficult to provide the procedure, Finer said.

The proportion of unwanted births at time of conceptions was highest among girls under 18 — 25.4 percent. It was lowest among women 30 to 44 — 10.4 percent.

The proportion was higher for black women (26.2 percent) than for Hispanics (16.8 percent) and whites (10.7 percent).

More information: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs