What about the oft-heard objection that buybacks and writedowns inflate the ROE number?

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Research from the Alan Guttmacher Institute finds the number of abortions at its lowest level since Roe, remaining steady at about 1.2 million reported procedures in the year 2011, down 25-percent since the all-time high in 1990.

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