To test the proposition that America's limited economic resources require that the rates of population growth be brought under control by abortion, a Pearson correlation was calculated between the rates of live births which served as a measure of population growth and the rates of legal abortion for 1985 in the USA. r was .94, a significant value.
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U.S. Bureau of the Census. (1990) Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1990. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.
