Abortion

If abortion were used as a primary method of birth control, a typical woman would have two to three pregnancies per year, that’s thirty or more during her lifetime (Guttmacher 1).

     A 52% of women getting abortions performed on them are younger than 25 years old and 19% are

If you were to look up the definition of abortion online, your results would be something along the lines of “the deliberate termination of pregnancy.” It is estimated that one in three women will have an abortion by the time they reach the age of 45. Some of these women will end up having multiple abortions. Over half of all abortions are due to unintended pregnancies and abortion being used as a form of birth control. 88.6% of abortions are done in the first trimester, 10.2% in the second trimester, and 1.1% in the third trimester. In 2011, the state of California was the number one state in total abortions, having reached 181,730 abortions in a year. Abortion has been a part of our culture and is a very controversial topic because of its history, procedures, and questionable moral values.

Jones, R. K., & Kooistra, K. (2011). Abortion Incidence and Access to Services In the United States, 2008. Perspectives On Sexual & Reproductive Health, 43(1), 41-50. doi:10.1363/4304111

According to the website http://womenissues.about.com/cs/abortionstats/a/aaabortionstats.htm there are approximately 126,000 abortions conducted each day throughout the world. This website includes the abortion statistics of the world and breaks the data down to the demographics of the United States. It also discusses the decisions to have an abortion and the use of contraceptives in the United States. This was an informative website and included detailed statistics conducted by the Alan Guttmacher Institute. According to the website http://www.bls.gov/cps in 2000, gon average there were roughly 135 million employed and 6 million unemployed people in the labor force in the United States.h (p. 3) The websites definition of

About 734,060.3 abortions happen each year throughout the United States, 7 out of 10 are unmatured babies that are sold for their body parts.

this year(Number of Abortions). Assuming the abortion rate remains constant for the rest of this year, there will be approximately 1,093,000 abortions this year, which is about 73% of the 1980s level: a 3-6% spike, similar to the spike in 1990. Since nearly a third of daughters of single mothers have teenage pregnancies, as compared to just 1 out of 20 from dual parent households, preventing children in those types of situations from being born prevents unwanted grandchildren from ever being conceive, further decreasing the abortion rate(Wilcox).

The topic I have chosen is Abortion Surveillance. The purpose of this report was to focus on women throughout the United States who have had legal abortion. According to the article and reported by the CDC a total of 664,435 abortions were documented in 2013. The data was reported from health organizations throughout 50 states, the District of Columbia, and New York City. The main population that was focused on all races, ethnicities, and economic standings of women between the ages of 15-44 years old. Which means during the 2013 the ratio of 12.5 abortions per 1,000 women or 200 abortions per 1,000 live births accrued. Positive note, the abortion rate did go done 5% from 2012 to 2013. The source of data for this article, which can be found on table 4-1 is Abortion Surveillance, Center of Disease Control and Prevention, Alan Guttmaker Institution, and Planned Parent Hood Federation of America.

24 percent of women having abortions are unmarried teenagers. Pregnancy can be a scary and extremely stressful time in a women?s life. To force a woman who is not ready for a child to go through with the birth is not the answer. Stress is not good for the fetus at all, and could lead to complications in the pregnancy, or even a miscarriage. People also seem to forget about a women?s mental health in these situations. A woman could be haunted for her lifetime of giving birth to an unborn child.

Abortions have become popular to the industry. About 43% of American women will have one or occasionally more than one abortions during their lifetime. Women's centers and hospitals perform more than a million abortions per year. Most abortions are done on women under the age of 25. Majority of abortions are done for teenagers. Abortions are obviously in great demand.

(1993), every year the number of woman who chooses abortion is about 1.5 million in United States. Almost half of American women get unplanned pregnancy, and 54% of these end in abortion (Finer LB & Zolna MR, 2011). Nearly one fifth of pregnancies end in abortion (Jones RK &

What many people do not realize is that most of the time when a woman gets her first abortion it is not uncommon to see them have another. Maybe it’s due to the fact that their health care provider covers the cost of the abortion. Or in their case it is easier for them to get pregnant and then abort it rather than getting on some form of birth control. Neither is an excuse to killing an unborn fetus. The majority of the data came from voluntary reports of legal abortions to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This data was supplemented (when necessary) by data from multiple sources, compiled by Wm. Robert Johnston. Based on statistics from 1970-2016. “The average likelihood that a woman had 3+ prior abortions was 7.4%. This

that I found in this article states that 91.9% of 2010 abortions were preformed at or less than the

The counts of the total number of abortions for the study period years come from published information from the Guttmacher Institute’s census of abortion providers (Finer and Henshaw 2003; Jones and Kavanaugh 2011). Following prior research, I used the CDC’s age distribution for each year to calculate the expected number of abortions that occurred in the age distribution of Add Health for each year, except in the years when an age distribution was collected by the Guttmacher Institute’s survey of abortion patients (Kost and Jones 2007; Fu et al. 1998). Because the CDC data is provided in ages ranges (under 15; 15-19; 20-24; 25-29; 30-34; 35-39; 40+), the Add Health data was restricted to best match these ranges (see Appendix 2 for further details).

a. 1,209 post-abortive women were anonymously surveyed from nine different abortion clinics across the country.