"We should take a measured amount of encouragement that we are on the right track," commented Eric Scheidler, the head of the Chicago-based Pro-Life Action League. "But there is still a massive, massive amount of injustice against the unborn, so we must stay on the track."

Conservative commentator and political scientist Michael New says the American data shows a strong correlation between the decline and states with restrictions on abortion, such as requirements for parental consent for minors or for women seeking abortion to be shown an ultrasound image of their unborn children.

The CDC reports: in 2012, the abortion industry killed 699,202 unborn Americans, down 17% from 848,163 in 2003. The abortion ratio fell by 14% from 24.1 per 100 live births to 21, and the abortion rate fell from 16 per 1,000 women of childbearing age to just 13.2, a drop of 18%. The CDC's long-term data shows that abortion has declined by more than half since its peak in the late 1980s of more than 1.5 million per year.

Abortion proponents and pro-life advocates disagree completely about the decline, which is going on worldwide. The Guttmacher Institute, a research organization long affiliated with Planned Parenthood, credits the decline to the promotion of contraception and sex education. "When we look at where contraceptives became more available, it matches where the abortion rate falls," Gilda Sedgh, senior research associate at Guttmacher, told LifeSiteNews.

According to Guttmacher's 2009 report, "Abortion Worldwide: A decade of Uneven Progress," the abortion rate worldwide fell from 35 per 1,000 women year in 1988 to 26 in 2008. In what Guttmacher terms the more developed countries, abortions dropped from 39 to 23 per 1,000 women, while in underdeveloped nations, abortions fell from 34 to 27.

As well, Sedgh claims that Guttmacher's own research shows comparable abortion rates in countries with or without restrictions, which she claims is proof that illegalization of abortion does not reduce its incidence (though it would seem to prove the opposite just as much, or nothing at all). In a 2014 study on its own 2011 data, Guttmacher attributed America's declining numbers to decreased sexual activity by teenagers as well as to contraception.

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