INCIDENCE OF ABORTION
• A total of 699,202 abortions were reported to CDC for 2012, the most recent year numbers are available. (Reporting is voluntary and not 100%.)
• In 2012, the total number of abortions decreased by 4.3% over 2011 numbers. In 2011, the total number of abortions decreased by 5% over 2010 numbers.
• The Associated Press reported in June, 2015, that nationwide the number of abortions decreased by an average 12% since 2010.
• CDC showed that 3,988,076 babies were born in the U.S. in 2014, the most recent year numbers are available.
• In the United States, about half of all pregnancies are unintended.
• Of all unintended pregnancies, 4 in 10 are aborted.• Twenty-one percent of all pregnancies in the U.S. end in abortion (not including natural miscarriages).(2011 numbers)
View abortion victim photos and a video of an actual abortion. (Warning: Some may find the images disturbing.)
• There has been a steady decline in abortions since 1980.
• Each year, about 1.7% of all women aged 15-44 have an abortion.
• Of the women obtaining abortions in any given year, about half of them have had at least one previous abortion.
• By age 45, one third of American women will have had at least one abortion, although this figure is now in dispute and may be much lower.
• Some 1.06 million abortions were performed in 2011, down from 1.21 million abortions in 2008, a decline of 13%.
• The U.S. abortion rate in 2011 was 13.9 abortions per 1,000, down from 19.4 per 1,000 in 2008.
• 88.7% of all abortions take place by the twelfth week of pregnancy.
• 12% of abortions in the U.S. occurred in teenagers.
WHY WOMEN GET ABORTIONS
• Some 1.06 million abortions were performed in 2011, down from 1.21 million abortions in 2008, a decline of 13%.
• Women who have never been married account for one-third of abortions in America.
• Less than 1% of all abortions take place because of rape and/or incest.
Women give an average of 3.7 reasons why they are seeking an abortion including the following:
• 21% Inadequate finances
• 21% Not ready for responsibility
• 16% Woman’s life would be changed too much
• 12% Problems with relationships, unmarried
• 11% Too young and/or immature
• 8% Children are grown; she has all she wants
• 3% Baby has possible health problems
• <1% Pregnancy caused by rape/incest
• 4% Other
ABORTION BY GESTATIONAL AGE
Of all abortions at 8 weeks or under, 71.2% are surgical procedures while 28.5% are medication abortions.
Read: Number of Late-term Abortion Facilities in the USA May Surprise You
ABORTION BY TYPE OF PROCEDURE
ABORTION BY MATERNAL AGE
View an Archive of Documented Abortion Patient Death Reports by Operation Rescue
ABORTION BY RACE
• Blacks comprise only 13% of the population of America but account for 37% of all abortions.
• Black women are five times more likely to abort than white women.
• 69% of pregnancies among Blacks are unintended, while that number is 54% among Hispanics and 40% of pregnancies among Whites.
• Planned Parenthood, the largest seller of abortions in the United States, has located 80% of its abortion clinics in minority neighborhoods, disproportionally targeting minorities for abortion.
Read Report: “Racial Profiling and Population Control,” by Mark Crutcher, Life Dymanics.
ABORTION BY RELIGION
ABORTION BY ANNUAL INCOME
ABORTION BY EDUCATION LEVEL
ABORTION BY NUMBER OF PREVIOUS BIRTHS
ABORTION FACILITIES
• As of September 2016, there were 730 outpatient abortion facilities in the U.S.
• Of those, 515 were surgical abortion facilities and 215 offered only medication abortions.
• Since 1991, 81% of all surgical abortion facilities in the U.S. have closed.
Read about the Late-Term Induction Abortion Method
Read Special Report: Late-Term Abortion Facilities
Read documents related to every abortion facility in the U.S. at AbortionDocs.org.
NEW TREND WARNING ABOUT ILLEGAL ABORTIONS
PUBLIC OPINION ABOUT ABORTION
Since the election of President Barack Obama, Americans have experienced a shift in how they view abortion. In the spring of 2009, several polls showed that for the first time, the majority of Americans identified themselves as “pro-life.”
GALLUP PUBLIC OPINION TREND: APRIL 1975 – MAY 2016
GALLUP PUBLIC OPINION TREND: PRO-LIFE V. PRO-CHOICE
GALLUP ABORTION BY STAGE OF PREGNANCY TREND: JULY 1996 – DECEMBER 2012
