Thursday, January 5, 2012

Latest abortion statistics from the CDC, for 2008

Abortion Surveillance --- United States, 2008: A total of 825,564 abortions were reported to the CDC for 2008. Women aged 20--29 years accounted for 57.1% of all abortions. That age group also had the highest abortion rates. Adolescents aged 15--19 years accounted for 16.2% of all abortions in 2008 and had an abortion rate of 14.3 abortions per 1,000 adolescents aged 15--19 years. Abortion rates decreased among adolescents aged ≤19 years, whereas they increased among women aged ≥35 years.

FRC summary of the report

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