Told ya

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg19626263.900&feedId=online-news_rss20

Family planning lowers abortion rates

• 21 October 2007
• Andy Coghlan
• Magazine issue 2626

Passions undoubtedly run high on whether abortion should be legal. But whether you accept the need for abortion or oppose it outright, the most comprehensive survey of global abortion trends since 1995 seems to confirm what many might have suspected - that women will continue to seek out abortions regardless of whether they are legal or not. It also showed the fastest way to reduce the number of abortions is to provide access to reliable contraception.

The study, which shows that the total number of abortion - both legal and illegal - fell worldwide between 1995 and 2003, was published in The Lancet last week (vol 370, p 1338). It compares abortion data from 2003 and 1995 assembled by the World Health Organization and the New York-based Guttmacher Institute, which studies sexual and reproductive health. "The total number of induced abortions declined from 46 to 42 million