BOSTON – Unintended pregnancies in the U.S. fell to the lowest proportion in 30 years across the board, according to an analysis published Thursday by the New England Journal of Medicine.
The study showed that unintended pregnancies fell to 45 percent of all pregnancies in 2011, down from 51 percent in 2008. Conducted by Lawrence B. Finer and Mia R. Zolna at the Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit research and advocacy organization in New York, the study showed that the rate among women and girls aged 15 to 44 dropped to 45 in 1,000, the lowest in three decades.
BOSTON – As the U.S. Supreme Court wrestled Wednesday with one of the most significant abortion cases to reach its chambers in two decades, pro-life advocates in Massachusetts highlighted legislative inaction in Boston on a measure similar to the one at the center of the high court case.
Like the Texas law, which has been challenged as a backdoor method of shutting down abortion providers in the Lone Star State, the measure proposed in Massachusetts also takes aim at abortion clinics by focusing on licensing and other regulations to govern their operations. But Bay State lawmakers have bottled up the bill in committee since June.
