These stats came from The Alan Gutmacher Institute - Alan Gutmacher was the first president of PLANNED PARENTHOOD! This "institute" is one of many that are basic shills for population control freaks at Planned Parenthood.
At the peak of the abortion rate years, one in three pregnancies were aborted according to the voluntary self- reporting abortionists.
They report today that one in four four American children in utero aree aborted. Of course if you have killed off 1/3 of one generation of fertile women already, it is pretty obvious that the pregnancy and abortion rates would be in decline.
Note: California (one of several states) doesn't even report their killse nor do they require abortionists to report to the state their kills.
Here is one story on rate of repeat abortions.
Special Issue on Repeat Abortion
http://www.lifeissues.net/writers/air/air_vol2no3_1989.html#rar
A.I.R.V.S.C.
Association for Interdisciplinary Research in Values and Social Change
Vol. 2, No 3, Summer, 1989
by Wanda Franz, et al.
Reproduced with Permission
The statistics on repeat abortions are very disturbing. Abortion is supposed to be something which is done with "great concern." It is frequently said, "no one has an abortion casually without giving it a lot of thought. " If abortion is taken so seriously by women there should be very few repeat abortions. And yet nearly 1/2 of all abortions in the U.S. are in this category. Health care professionals and abortion providers should be very interested in the causes of the phenomenon, but there has been very little interest in studying the women involved in the practice. Surgeon General Koop ignored repeat abortion in his recent letter on the health effects of abortion on women. This newsletter has included virtually all of the studies on the subject. These studies, primarily by pro-choice advocates, demonstrate increasing risk of infertility and reproductive damage as well as increasing adverse psychological and social effects.
Surgeon General Koop ignored repeat abortion in his recent analysis on the health effects of abortion Repeat abortion represents a failure of the pro-choice rhetoric. If women truly perceived their abortions in a serious light, why do so many make the same mistakes over and over again. One answer is that abortion is being used as a means of birth control. This is particularly true of repeaters for whom contraception is often ineffective. To use abortion as a form of birth control is a highly objectionable approach given the dangers of repeat abortion to women's health and well being and the repeated massive loss of unborn human life.
A second possible explanation for repeat abortions is that there is pathological causality in the women's behavior. If there is any evidence of pathological ideation, this should truly raise sufficient concerns to encourage research, since there are so many women involved in the practice. The personal stories of women who have had multiple abortions often carry some evidence of this, if only in the sense that the women seem unable to take hold of their own destiny, make choices which are truly beneficial to them, and break the cycle of self-abuse. Indeed, repeat abortions suggests the possibility that women aren't truly acting out of "choice" but are allowing others to use them. If this is so, repeat abortions make a mockery of the slogan "pro-choice."
With the large numbers, and the clear dangers of the practice, it is essential that we take responsibility for protecting women's health by studying it and seeking some way of limiting it's practice.
Repeat Abortion Rate Approaches 50%
The repeat abortion rate in the U.S. has risen rapidly since Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973. In 1973 it was estimated that only about 12% of the induced abortions were repeat abortions. By 1979 the national repeat rate had risen to 29.4% and by 1983 it had reached 38.8%. In 1987 the Alan Guttmacher Institute took a survey of 9480 women at approximately 100 abortion clinics throughout the U.S. and found that 42.9% of the women said they were having repeat abortions. 26.9% were having a second abortion; 10.7% were having a third abortion; and 5.3% were having a fourth abortion or more. (Henshaw 1987, 1988)
Based upon these figures and also extrapolating the fourth abortion or more category to more precise figures based upon state health department reports of repeat abortions, it is estimated that there were about 643,500 repeat abortions in the U.S. in 1987 out of a total of 1.5 million abortions. Of these 403,500 women had a second abortion; 160,500 had a third abortion; 53,250 had a fourth abortion; 17,500 had a fifth abortion; 4400 had a sixth abortion and 4400 had a seventh or higher abortion.
The highest known number of reported abortions by one woman is 29. The woman was a Brazilian prostitute. A woman in Minnesota was reported by social workers to have had 20 abortions. The woman was suicidal. Rovinsky (1972) reports a case of a woman who had 17 abortions and Fisher (1986) describes a woman who reported 15 abortions in 23 years. The woman reporting 15 abortions was described as "chaotic" and "childlike".
Abortion statistician Christopher Tietze (1978) claimed "The increasing number of repeat abortions reflects the increasing number of women who have had a first abortion and are therefore at risk of having a subsequent abortion" considering the limitations of contraception. But this is neither an accurate nor appropriate response to the problem. Despite intensive contraceptive counseling, abortion counselors are troubled and frustrated by abortion repeaters. It is recognized as perhaps the most difficult issue in abortion counseling. (Berger 1984), (Roe 1985), (Francke 1978). The rate of abortion is much higher among those who already have had at least one prior abortion. Tietze (1978) found that U.S. women having first time abortions in 1974 had a rate of 17.4 per 1000 women aged 15-44, while those who were repeating abortions had a much higher rate of 60.3 per 1000 women of the same age group in the same year. Similar trends were also observed in 1975 and 1976. Steinhoff(1979) in a Hawaiian study of several thousand women who had aborted and then were followed over a five year period found that 40-70% became abortion repeaters. Bracken (1978) in comparing women who chose to carry their child to term with those who chose to abort, found that aborters were significantly more likely to have had a previous abortion.
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