2019/09/18 by Rachel K. Jones, Elizabeth Witwer, Jenna Jerman · 4 citations
Medicine · #Reproductive Health and Contraception #Reproductive Health and Technologies #Assisted Reproductive Technology and Twin Pregnancy
paper · pdf · doi:10.1363/2019.30760
openalex publication_date 2019/09/18 · openalex created_date 2019/09/26 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Introduction Abortion surveillance in the United States is an important public health indicator that is needed to estimate pregnancy rates, and it can also serve as a measure of access to reproductive health care. Between 2011 and 2014, the U.S. abortion rate declined from 16.9 to 14.6 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15–44, the lowest rate ever recorded and the continuation of a decades-long trend.1 Still, in 2014, almost one in five pregnancies ended in abortion, and given abortion rates in that year, an estimated one in four U.S.