"The United States has one of the highest abortion rates among developed countries."

Focus on the family ^ | 1.9.03 | Carrie Gordon Earll

[victim soul]

Abortion Statistics

"The United States has one of the highest abortion rates among developed countries." (Facts in Brief, Alan Guttmacher Institute, 1995, New York, NY)

Reported number of legal abortions in the United States for selected years according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Abortion Surveillance Report, June 7, 2002:

www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss5103a1.htm

1972 — 586,760 1994 — 1,267,415

1980 — 1,297,606 1995 — 1,210,883

1985 — 1,328,570 1996 — 1,221,585

1990 — 1,429,577 1997 — 1,186,039

1992 — 1,359,145 *1998 — 884,273

*At first glance, the table listed above appears to show a considerable 25 percent drop in the number of reported abortions performed in the U.S. in 1998 as compared to 1997. Upon closer examination, however, the decrease is 2 percent and this is why: In 1998, the number of abortions reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) excluded data from Alaska, California, New Hampshire and Oklahoma. In order to compare reported abortions in 1998 to previous years, the CDC recalculated the reported number of abortions for 1995, 1996 and 1997, minus these four states. Using these adjusted figures, the 1998 total of 884,273 represents a 2 percent decrease from the 1997 total of 900,171 from the same reporting areas.

The CDC attributes the majority of the decrease in reported abortions in 1998 to the absence of California’s data. In 1997, the CDC estimated the number of abortions in California at 275,700. The CDC acknowledges that the numbers of abortions reported to the agency are probably lower than the actual number performed. The lack of uniform, mandatory abortion reporting for all fifty states hampers the CDC’s ability to accurately report the number of abortion performed in the U.S, as evidenced in the 1998 report.

According to the CDC report, in 1998:

40 percent women who had abortions in the U.S. had no other children; 45 percent of women who had abortions in the U.S. had at least one previous abortion; 20 percent of women who had abortions in the U.S. were married; 80 percent were unmarried.

According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, the research arm of the nation’s leading abortion provider, Planned Parenthood:

At current rates, an estimated 43 percent of American women will have at least one abortion by the age of 45.

Two-thirds of all abortions are among never-married women.

Fifty-two percent of U.S. women having abortions are younger than 25 years old.

About 13,000 abortions each year are attributed to rape and incest—representing 1 percent of all abortions.

(Guttmacher statistics from "Facts in Brief: Induced Abortion," 2002)

[Petronski]

It's the best marketing campaign of any industry I know.

[Petronski]

"Best" meaning "most effective."

[perfect stranger]

That doesn't sound right to me. I doubt this is true.

[Post Toasties]

You need to be more specific. Is there anything in particular you disagree with here?

[weikel]

We have more ghettoes on average thats why.

[MHGinTN]

Words fail ...

[goodnesswins]

A question....do the Islamafascists allow abortion? I mean, say, Osama? (Wondering where Patty (tennis shoes for a brain) Murray would stand if she knew the answer.)

[victim soul]

Two-thirds of all abortions are among never-married women.

Imagine, we say a woman shoud have the choice to murder her child after she makes the bad choice of having sex with someone who doesn't even want to marry her!!

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[Coleus]

And the numbers don't reflect the morning after pills, herbs, asthsma drugs, starvation and the other tatics women use to abort that aren't recorded in Doctors' offices and clinics.

[bvw]

nefalim.

[eccentric]

Are you kidding?!?! Patty Murray thinks Osama was building day care centers!

[LiteKeeper]

bump

[goodnesswins]

YES....that was sarcasm.....forgot the tag.

[cpforlife.org]

To learn what Islam teaches about the unborn, see this , click on CHRISTIAN TEACHINGS AGAINST ABORTION then scroll WAY down to Teachings Against abortion from other Religions. GREAT SITE, BTW, imho.

[Coleus]

The Muslims are one of the largest voices in the UN for the unborn.

[Lorianne]

Abortion is much more complex than you portray it. We should investigate our entire culture if we are to understand why our abortion rate is higher than other nations comparable to ours in culture/wealth/education.

IMO, and for starters, we as a society place a great deal of importance on things contradictory to the idea of the inherent worth of children and the obvious benefits to society in raising child well.

[victim soul]

You wrote: "We have more ghettoes on average thats why."

And the ghettoes are our college campuses.