US abortions at lowest rate since 1974
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The number of abortions in the United States fell to 1.2 million in 2005, down 25 percent from the all-time high of 1.6 million in 1990 and dropping the abortion rate to its lowest level since 1974, according to report issued Thursday.
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WASHINGTON - The nation's crime rate last year held steady at the lowest levels since the government began surveying crime victims in 1973, the Justice Department reported Sunday.    The study was the latest contribution to a decade-long trend in which violent crime as measured by victim surveys has fallen by 55 percent and property crime by 49 percent...
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The unemployment rate for August fell to 5.4 percent from 5.5 percent, the lowest since October 2001, the government reported today.
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Nearly 70,000 women, almost half of them in Asia, die from unsafe abortions each year despite government pledges made a decade ago to improve human rights and reproductive health, researchers said Wednesday.
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A woman's ability to have a child  using assisted technologies such as test-tube fertilization  plummets to a 4 percent success rate after she turns 42,  according to a U.S. government study published on Friday.
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The number of executions in the United States hit a 13-year low in 2007, mostly because of a de facto moratorium on the death penalty prompted by challenges against the use of lethal injection, according to a report by a group that opposes capital punishment.
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Tooth decay among children is at its lowest recorded level since 1983, figures show.
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The divorce rate falls to its lowest level for 22 years, amid a record low in marriages themselves.
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A study pins declining US teenage pregnancy rates on better use of contraception - not abstinence.
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Violent and property crime rates in  the United States remained at their lowest levels in 30 years  during 2003, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Sunday.
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Violent and property crime rates in the United States remained at their lowest levels in 30 years during 2003, the US Department of Justice said on Sunday.
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The US economy grew at a pace of 0.6% in the first quarter of 2007, its weakest rate in more than four years.
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Fewer high school students are having sex these days, and more are using condoms. The teen birth rate has hit a record low.
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OTTAWA (CP) - The national homicide rate dropped to its lowest level in more than 30 years last year, says Statistics Canada.
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A jump in the number of babies born at abnormally low birth weights was the main reason why the U.S. infant mortality rate rose in 2002 for the first time in 44 years, according to a federal study released on Monday.
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US consumer sentiment is at its lowest level in two years on growing concerns about weak business conditions.
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Almost 200 women die each day after having a botched abortion, according to a report.