TallOrange

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TallOrange96 karma

Do you know what the general statistic is for what proportion of women have had abortions? (I recently heard in a presentation it was above 15-20%)

Do you ever get return visits? And if so, do you look to counsel that person on being safer with their sex life?

Thank you for your work, counseling efforts, and spreading information!

TallOrange75 karma

I jumped on the Guttmacher Institute's site and searched for some more concrete abortion statistics (not just the subsets of unplanned pregnancies). It looks like the official number is 3 in 10 will have had an abortion by age 45 (irrespective of the proportion having an unplanned pregnancy).

[Indirect source cited via website]

  1. Jones RK and Kavanaugh ML, Changes in abortion rates between 2000 and 2008 and lifetime incidence of abortion, Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2011, 117(6):1358–1366.

  2. Finer LB and Zolna MR, Unintended pregnancy in the United States: incidence and disparities, 2006, Contraception, 2011, 84(5):478–485.