National Right to Life President Carol Tobias said in a statement the report “shows the long-term efforts of the right-to-life movement to educate the country about the humanity of the unborn child,” but ignores the impact public debate has had on this downward trend. “The more Americans learn about the development of the unborn child and the tragedy of abortion, the more they reject abortion as a legitimate answer to an unexpected pregnancy,” she said.

Confirming the pro-life trend of recent years, a new report by the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute shows that the abortion rate nationwide has fallen to its lowest point since 1973, the year the U.S. Supreme Court declared abortion legal.

According to the report, the U.S. abortion rate in 2011 fell to 16.9 abortions per 1,000 women between the ages of 15 and 44. This is a steep drop from the highest level of 29.3 abortions per 1,000 women, recorded in 1981. In 1973, the rate was 16.3 per 1,000 women.

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