September 25, 2008
Any decent editor would have flagged "spiking" and "spike," and kicked it back to clueless writer for another try:Tracking Changes in Who Gets Abortions and Why | Newsweek Health | Newsweek.com While the teen abortion rate has declined by nearly 30 percent, the rate for women ages 20-24 is almost 10 points higher than it was in 1974. (In that group, rates hit 30.4 abortions per 1,000 women in 1974, spiking to 53.8 in 1989 and declining to 39.9 in 2004.) Women in the next age group, ages 25-29, follow a similar pattern, with a spike in the '80s and a decline in recent years. -
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