{"id":32883,"date":"2011-02-05T10:22:25","date_gmt":"2011-02-05T15:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=32883"},"modified":"2013-11-14T06:17:38","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T11:17:38","slug":"trends-in-the-rate-of-abortion-new-data-shows-a-plateau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/02\/05\/trends-in-the-rate-of-abortion-new-data-shows-a-plateau\/","title":{"rendered":"Trends in the Rate of Abortion: New Data Shows a Plateau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Guttmacher Institute <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guttmacher.org\/media\/nr\/2011\/01\/11\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> that the decades long fall in the rate of surgical abortions has plateaued:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/01\/127.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32884\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/01\/127.jpg\" width=\"523\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/01\/127.jpg 523w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/01\/127-500x275.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 523px) 100vw, 523px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Decreasing abortion rates is something that most Americans support. \u00a0Sharon Camp, president and CEO of Guttmacher, suggests that greater availability of cheap effective contraception might help jump start the decrease. \u00a0That seems like a politically safe recommendation. \u00a0What say you?<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/msmagazine.com\/blog\/blog\/2011\/01\/22\/why-have-abortion-rates-stopped-dropping\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle Chen at Ms.<\/a><\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guttmacher Institute reports that the decades long fall in the rate of surgical abortions has plateaued: Decreasing abortion rates is something that most Americans support. \u00a0Sharon Camp, president and CEO of Guttmacher, suggests that greater availability of cheap effective contraception might help jump start the decrease. \u00a0That seems like a politically safe recommendation. \u00a0What [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2083,55,2091,252,253],"class_list":["post-32883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abortionreproduction","tag-gender","tag-gender-healthmedicine","tag-healthmedicine","tag-history"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32883"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59140,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32883\/revisions\/59140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}