"high abortion rate" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where the number of abortions performed is significantly higher than average. Example: "The country has been struggling to address its high abortion rate, with over 1 million abortions reported in the last year alone."
China has a high abortion rate, and as I gazed around the audience, all their laughter gone, I reflected that quite a few women there probably knew precisely what she was talking about.
"It's a perfect storm," said Loretta Ross, the executive director of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective in Atlanta, listing a lack of access to birth control, lack of education, and even a high rate of sexual violence as reasons for the high abortion rate in the black community.
A high prevelance of repeat abortions reflects a high abortion rate in the past.
Despite the high abortion rate during the Soviet Union period [ 1], abortion was not the subject of any public debate.
The early selection that we detected indicates that inbreeding depression is responsible for the high abortion rate and low seed set in R. pseudoacacia.
The early selection that we detected suggests that inbreeding depression caused the high abortion rate and low seed set in R. pseudoacacia.
High abortion rates that fell by more than 50percentt in countries like Romania during the 1990's may now start climbing again.
Since 1971, the Dutch have managed to reduce teenage pregnancies by 72%, and without the high abortion rates that partly explain Sweden and Denmark's records.
The states that first allowed legal abortion in 1970 (three years before Roe v Wade) were the first to experience the subsequent downturn in crime; states with high abortion rates experienced bigger reductions in crime.
Disproportionately high abortion rates among black women are a direct result of their higher rates of unintended pregnancy, which in turn reflect economic and social inequalities that are widespread and pervasive.
"When contraception rates are high, abortion rates are low," Gilda Sedgh, a senior research associate at the institute and the lead author of the new study, said in an interview.
