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This source is reliable and credible by academic standards because the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is the trusted national public health agency of the U.S. It is a U.S. federal agency, under the Department of Health and Human Services. 

Dastagir, Alia E. “Fewer Women Are Having Abortions. Why?” USA Today, Gannett Satellite Information Network, 17 June 2019, www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/06/13/abortion-law-fewer-women-having-abortions-why/1424236001/. Accessed 20 April 2021.

This source is reliable and credible by academic standards because the author Ms. Dastagir is a national correspondent and wellness reporter. Also, USA Today is an internationally distributed American daily middle-market newspaper. It delivers current local and national news through award-winning journalism.  

Foster, Diana Greene. “Dramatic Decreases in US Abortion Rates: Public Health Achievement or Failure?” American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, 8 Nov. 2017, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5678419/. Accessed 20 April 2021.

This source is reliable and credible by academic standards because PMC is a free archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine. It is a repository for journal literature deposited by participating publishers. 

“Ngram Viewer”. “Google Books Ngram Viewer.” Google Books, Google, books.google.com/ngrams. Accessed 20 April 2021.

This source is reliable and credible by academic standards because the Google Books Ngram Viewer is an online search engine that charts the frequencies of any set of search strings using a yearly count of n-grams found in sources printed between 1500 and 2019 in Google’s text corpora in English and other languages.  

Thompson, Lauren Macivor. “Women Have Always Had Abortions.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 13 Dec. 2019, www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/13/opinion/sunday/abortion-history-women.html. Accessed 20 April 2021.

This source is reliable and credible by academic standards because the author Dr. Thompson is a historian of early-twentieth-century women’s rights and public health. Also, the New York Times is a trusted American daily newspaper based in NYC with a worldwide readership.