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Abortion Statistics
• Nearly half of pregnancies among American women are unintended, and four in 10 of these are terminated by abortion.[1] Twenty-two percent of all pregnancies (excluding miscarriages) end in abortion.[2]
• Forty percent of pregnancies among white women, 69% among blacks and 54% among Hispanics are unintended.
• In 2005, 1.21 million abortions were performed, down from 1.31 million in 2000. From 1973 through 2005, more than 45 million legal abortions occurred.[2]
• Each year, about two percent of women aged 15-44 have an abortion; 47% of them have had at least one previous abortion.[3]
• Most recent statistics about abortion:
http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_induced_abortion.html
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Websites
National Network of Abortion Funds : http://www.nnaf.org
Planned Parenthood of North Texas : http://www.ppnt.org
Planned Parenthood : http://www.plannedparenthood.org
NARAL Pro-Choice Texas : http://www.prochoicetexas.org
NARAL Pro-Choice America : http://www.naral.org
National Abortion Federation : http://www.prochoice.org
Center for Reproductive Rights : http://www.crlp.org
Alan Guttmacher Institute : http://www.guttmacher.org
Center for Health and Gender Equity : http://www.genderhealth.org
Choice Linkup : http://www.choicelinkup.com
Lilith Fund : http://www.lilithfund.org
Jane’s Due Process : http://www.janesdueprocess.org
IPAS : http://www.ipas.org/english
Abortion Care Network : http://abortioncarenetwork.org
Exhale: An after-abortion counseling talkline : http://www.4exhale.org
