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Originally Posted by Troianii
Well yeah, when you make the comparative groups people under 20 versus people 20 and over, the latter group has an overwhelming number of abortions, but that's a ridiculous way of grouping statistics, clearly designed such. Proportionately teens do have far more pregnancies, and that's how things should be measured.
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Well, I meant to say 20-35 years. I don't remember the statistic off the top of my head. Teens do not have more pregnancies (approximately 40% last I checked) and most definitely do NOT have the most abortions. That is a false assumption and/or lie that people have been hearing for quite some time. The face of the average woman who seeks an abortion already has one child, may even be married, and is over the age of 20. The United States abortion rates have been steadily dropping and are now at the lowest they have been since 1976. This is due to the battle to make sexual education and contraception correctly distributed, comprehensive, and available.
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Syracuse.com
Half of the roughly 1.2 million U.S. women who have abortions each year are 25 or older. Only about 17 percent are teens. About 60 percent have given birth to least one child prior to getting an abortion.
A disproportionately high number are black or Hispanic. And regardless of race, high abortion rates are linked to hard times.
"It doesn't just happen to young people, it doesn't necessarily have to do with irresponsibility," said Miriam Inocencio, president of Planned Parenthood of Rhode Island. "Women face years and years of reproductive life after they've completed their families, and they're at risk of an unintended pregnancy that can create an economic strain."
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