WASHINGTON – A new report released today by the Guttmacher Institute (formerly a special research affiliate of Planned Parenthood), "Abortion Incidence and Access to Services in the United States, 2008," found that for 2008, the annual number of abortions remained essentially level with the numbers it reported for 2005 in its last published survey. The report found 1.212 million abortions in 2008, compared with 1.206 million abortions in 2005, the difference accounted for by abortions from previously uncounted abortion "providers" discovered since the 2005 survey. The total is still far below the peak of 1.6 million abortions reported for 1990.
