World wide there are approximatly 40 million abortions a year, 115,000 a day. In the U.S aprox. 1.4 million a year, Russian women average 5 abortions in thier life time, and increasing
averaging arox. 4000 a day. In the U.S women under 25 make up half of the obortions at 52%: Women between 20-24 obtain 32% of all abortions; Teenagers obtain 20% and girls under 15 account for 1.2%
While white women obtain 60% of all abortions, their abortion rate is well below that of minority women. Black women are more than 3 times as likely as white women to have an abortion, and Hispanic women are 2 times as likely.
Single never married women obtain 64% of all abortions; 18% are made up of Married women and divorced women make up 9%.
while 24% of women who have abortions claim no religous affiliation, 70% claim religous affiliation, approx 31% are Catholic, 35% are Protestant, just over one percent are Jewish, with 15% of these claming to be born-again evangelical Christians.
1% of all abortions occur because of rape or incest; 6% of abortions occur because of potential health problems regarding either the mother or child, and 93% of all abortions occur for social reasons (i.e. the child is unwanted or inconvenient).
52% of all abortions occur before the 9th week of pregnancy, 25% happen between the 9th & 10th week, 12% happen between the 11th and 12th week, 6% happen between the 13th & 15th week, 4% happen between the 16th & 20th week, and 1% of all abortions (approx 17,000 a yr)happen after the 20th week of pregnancy.
An estimated 43% of all women will have at least 1 abortion by the time they are 45 years old. 47% of all abortions are performed on women who have had at least one previous abortion.
Age Group White Black/other Total
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< 15 2,180 0.6% 2,555 1.1% 4,725 0.8%
15-19 69,180 19.9% 42.203 18.2% 111,383 19.2%
20-24 111,646 32.2% 77,220 33.3% 188.866 32.6%
25-29 75,816 21.8% 55,333 23.9% 131,149 22.7%
30-34 49,181 14.2% 32,911 14.2% 82,090 14.2%
35-39 29,793 8.6% 16,771 7.2% 64,564 8.0%
>40 9,383 2.7% 4,631 2.0% 14,014 2.4%
Total 347,1779 100% 231,624 100% 578,803 100%
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The data provided is from 34 states and New York, excledes 3 states where race is unknown and race was 15%percentages may not round to 100 because of rounding Data from 29 states and New York City; excludes six states where unknown race or marital status was 15%
Source www.cdc.gov
what are the main reasons for abortion? Many women and teens worry about their future plans. Some women and teens do not feel they can afford a child. And still others do not want to go at parenthood alone.
