The AP just released a survey of abortion trends in America since 2010.  The good news is that the total number of abortions is down for nearly every state that keeps statistics, and pretty dramatically, too, averaging 12 percent nationwide.  Why this is so is a bit of a mystery. States with Republican majorities that have steadily increased the legal restrictions on abortion in the last few years have predictably seen a decline in abortion.  Wisconsin, for example, saw 7,825 abortions in 2010 and 6,462 in 2013, down 17.4 percent. But the odd thing is that abortions have declined even in states, like New York, that have iron-girded legal allowances for women to abort their children.  New York’s abortions declined 15.2 percent during the same period. The AP found that five of the six states with the largest abortion declines from 2010 to 2013 – “Hawaii at 30 percent, New Mexico at 24 percent, Nevada and Rhode Island at 22 percent,...(Read Full Post)