Who has abortions?
Age: Annually, about 2% of American women aged 15 to 44; a decline
since 1980 when it was 3%. Based on 1992 numbers, an estimated 43% of women now of
childbearing age will have had at least one abortion by the time they are 45 years old |
Income: In 1995 almost as many white women from households with
annual incomes above $60,000 had about as many of that year's 1.4 million abortions as
white women from households with incomes below $15,000. "Highly educated people are
less likely to have 'unintended pregnancies,' " says Stanley Henshaw from the Alan
Guttmacher Institute, "but they are also less tolerant of them." |
Race: 46%. i.e. fewer than one half of women having abortions are
white; they are 74% of the population. Black women have 29% of the abortions; they are
12% of the population
Hispanic women account for 20% of the abortion total; they are 11% of the population. |
Religion: 54% of American women identify themselves as Protestant;
they had 37% of the abortions 31% of American women are Catholic; they had 31% of the
abortions
6% held no professed religion; they had 24% of the abortion total. |
Peter Brimelow; Forbes, 10/18/99 |
Abortion in United States
- 1,500,000 every year*
- 4,100 every day
- 1 every 20 seconds
- 1 in 3 pregnancies end in abortion
- 25 years since Roe v. Wade ('73)
- 28,000,000 1973-1992*
- 36,500,000 estimate through 1998
- 258,245,000 US population ('93)
- 36,500,000 is 14.1% of the current US population - our youth
* Source: Alan Guttmacher Institute of Planned Parenthood
Abortion in New York
� 150,000 each year *
� 4l0 every day
� 25 years since Roe V. Wade ('73)
� 3,750,000 estimated abortions 1973-1997
Abortion in Monroe County
� 3,200 each year*
� 8.7 every day
� 80,000 estimated abortions 1973-1997
� 90% in "clinics"
*Source: NYS Department of Health
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