NATION/WORLD Abortion rate reaches 25-year low according to CDC report The Michigan Daily - Friday, January 7, 2000 - 7 kiing solo ATLANTA (AP) - The number of abor- tions in the United States fell in 1997 to the lowest level in two decades, despite new drugs that make it easier to terminate a pregnancy. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported yesterday that 20 of every 1,000 women of reproductive age (15 to 44) had abortions in 1997, the same rate as the pre- vious two years and the lowest since 1975. The number of abortions for every 1,000 live births dropped from 314 in 1996 to 305 in 1997 - also a 25-year low, the CDC said. The preliminary estimate of 1,184,758 legal abortions in 1997 was 3 percent less than the 1,221,585 abortions in 1996 and was the low- est number performed since 1978. The CDC cited several factors for the decline, including reduced access to abortion, an increased willingness to use contraception and possibly different attitudes about the moral implications of abortion, For the first time, the annual CDC report -included a breakdown from some states of which abortions were performed with surgery and which with drugs. Previously, states had {reported only the total number of abortions. In 1997, 16 states reported 2,988 abortions induced by drugs. The Alan Guttmacher Institute, an abortion rights research organiza- tion, estimated there were 4,300 drug-induced abortions in all of the United States during the "1 don't think (abortion inducing drugs) will have any effect whatsoever on rates of abortion or rates of unintended pregnancy." - Gloria Feldt president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America 'U P.; i /. SNv 1 - Sf 55 4 ' -J 4, , first half of 1997 alone. The drug most commonly used in the United States to induce abortion is methotrexate. Methotrexate is used to treat certain types of gastrointestinal disorders and cancers, but doc- tors have been allowed to prescribe it to induce abortion since the mid-1990s. Another drug, mifepristone, is designed specifically to end pregnancy and is expected to win approval from the Food and Drug Administration this year. It is available only through clinical trials. A similar drug used in Europe, RU-486, remains ensnared in political battles in this country. The medications are touted as a way to make the procedure more private and convenient, without the need for surgery. Women take the medications under a doctor's supervision dur- ing the first 49 days of pregnancy. Those on both sides of the debate said the medications are unlikely to affect the overall numbers of abortions but might shift the method away from surgery. "I don't think it will have any effect whatso- ever on rates of abortion or rates of unintended pregnancy," said Gloria Feldt, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. April Thompson, a spokesperson for the National Right to Life Committee, said: "It's just another method of taking the life of an unborn child. It will not change the debate and it will not change the number of abortions." The CDC said that 52 percent of the women who received an abortion in 1997 were 24 or younger. Most of the women were white and unmarried. Fifty-five percent of the procedures were done in the first two months of pregnan- cv. Final 1997 figures -- the most recent year for which such numbers are available - including the numbers of abortions in each state, will be released in the summer. t ^ .5 X f :. ' Fhr W. l I . . R ' . o T, r.'°' ' + "te --_, A."... 4. A; ,~ ~ '4.. AP PHOTO A skier has the slopes to herself yesterday at Mount Abram Ski Area in Locke Hills, Maine. 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(U-WIRE) - Stanford University has charged at least one student with a violation of the Fundamental Standard in relation to the racist e-mail that was sent last spring to many campus e-mail accounts, Stanford Vice Provost for Student Affairs James Montoya announced Wednesday. Montoya said that the student whose account was used to send the message was not responsible for the incident, something that the university has believed all along and is now ready to confirm. He also said that there were parts of the investigation that were continuing, but declined further comment and said he would release no further details regarding the incident or surrounding the investigation. "I attempted to convey as much information as I could given the con- straints of the Student Judicial Charter," he said. 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