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CDC says U.S. abortion rate plunged in decade ending 2015

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CDC says U.S. abortion rate plunged in decade ending 2015The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that statistics for 2015, the most recent year for which data is available, show the abortion rate was 11.8 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44. Teens aged 15 to 19 experienced a greater decrease than older women, with the rate falling 54 percent from 2006 to 2015, the CDC said. “This decrease in abortion rate was greater than the decreases for women in any older age group,” the CDC said in a statement.