This is amazing. An article on abortion stats that says for every 1,000 pregnancies that did not result in a miscarriage in 2002, there were 242 abortions. Effectively, we are aborting 1/4 of people in the US. Apparently that number has been dropping since the 70's but still.
And you said evolution had stopped! Talk about selection!
More interesting facts:
· 47% of unintended pregnancies are aborted.
· Six in 10 women who had abortions in 2002 were mothers. "Despite the common belief, women who have abortions and those who have children are not two separate groups," said Finer.
· A quarter of abortions occur among unmarried women who live with a male partner, putting this group at elevated risk of unintended pregnancy and abortion.
· The majority -- 56 percent -- of women who terminate their pregnancies are in their twenties. Teenagers between 15 and 19 make up 19 percent of abortions, although this percentage has dropped substantially in recent years.
· Less than 1 percent of abortions are done after 24 weeks
· The number of abortion providers declined by 11 percent between 1996 and 2000, to 1,800. In 2000, one-third of women aged 15 to 44 lived in a county that lacked an abortion provider.
· Sixty percent of women who had abortions in 2000 had incomes of less than twice the poverty level --below $28,000 per year for a family of three, for example. This is in part because "low-income women have lower access to family planning services" such as contraception and counseling provided by health departments, independent clinics or Planned Parenthood, Finer said.
Posted by bluprnt at July 19, 2005 02:39 PM