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- From: mcmillan@vf.jsc.nasa.gov
- Subject: Statistics
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.142445.1@vf.jsc.nasa.gov>
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- Organization: NASA Johnson Space Center
- Date: 11 Jan 93 14:24:45 -0600
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- Some abortion statistics according to the Abortion Surveillance Report of the
- Centers for Disease Control:
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- o Half of all minority pregnancies and one-third of all pregnancies in the
- U.S. end in abortion.
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- o 77.5% of women who obtain abortions in the U.S. are unmarried.
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- o 41% of women obtaining an abortion had previously had at least one
- other induced abortion.
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- o 75,000 admitted having had at least three previous abortions.
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- o States reporting the highest abortion ratio include: California, where
- 40% of all pregnancies end in abortion, and New York, where 34.4% are
- aborted. In New York City, 42% of all pregnancies end in abortion.
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- A comment: over 20 million unborn infants have been aborted since RvW in
- 1972. This is three times the number of Jews that were killed by the Nazis in
- World War II.
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- Stokes McMillan - Flight Engineering Office NASA/JSC
- MCMILLAN@vf.jsc.nasa.gov
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