Report: Abortions at lowest number since 1974

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• Report: U.S. down to 1.2 million abortions in 2005, the fewest since 1974
  
• Factors include better use of birth control, more difficulty in obtaining abortions
  
• Early medication abortions, including use of RU-486, more than doubled from 2001
  
• Guttmacher Institute data are accepted by both sides in abortion debate
  
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