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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!olivea!charnel!rat!usc!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!uchinews!quads!eeb1
  2. From: eeb1@quads.uchicago.edu (e elizabeth bartley)
  3. Newsgroups: talk.abortion
  4. Subject: Re: FACTS wanted
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov5.041603.14315@midway.uchicago.edu>
  6. Date: 5 Nov 92 04:16:03 GMT
  7. References: <96149@netnews.upenn.edu>
  8. Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
  9. Reply-To: eeb1@midway.uchicago.edu
  10. Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
  11. Lines: 57
  12.  
  13. In article <96149@netnews.upenn.edu>
  14. myra@saul.cis.upenn.edu (Myra VanInwegen) writes:
  15.  
  16. >Howdy. I would like some statistics, or would like to be pointed to a
  17. >reference that will provide them. I would like to know:
  18.  
  19. >Who gets abortions? (I think most of us have the opinion that a great
  20. >deal of people wanting abortions are black inner city teenagers; I
  21. >would like to see distributions according to age, race, social status
  22. >[income level of family], and marital status.)
  23.  
  24. I've got some outdated data on this from the 1990 World Almanac; I
  25. assume more recent World Almanacs would have more recent information.
  26.  
  27.                                  1972      1976     1980      1985
  28. Reported # of legal abortions  586,760   988,267  1,297,606  1,328,570
  29. Ratio per 1000 live births      180.1     312.0    359.2      353.8
  30. Rate per 1000 women aged          13        21       25         24
  31.      15-44 years
  32.                  Percentage distribution (excludes unknowns)
  33.   Age (years)
  34. 19 and under                     32.6      32.1     29.2       26.3
  35. 20-24                            32.5      33.3     35.3       34.7
  36. 25 and over                      34.9      34.6     35.3       39.0
  37.   Race
  38. White                            77.0      66.6     69.6       66.6
  39. Black and other                  23.0      33.4     30.1       33.4
  40.   Marital status
  41. Married                          29.7      24.6     23.1       19.3
  42. Unmarried                        70.3      75.4     76.9       80.7
  43.   No. live births (living
  44.   children for 1972 and 1976)
  45. 0                                49.4      47.7     58.4       56.6
  46. 1                                18.2      20.7     19.5       21.3
  47. 2                                13.3      15.4     13.7       14.5
  48. 3                                 8.7       8.3      5.3        5.1
  49. 4 and over                       10.4       7.9      3.2        2.5
  50.    Type procedure
  51. Curettage                        88.6      92.8     95.5       97.8
  52.  Suction                         65.2      82.6     89.8       92.9
  53.  Sharp                           23.4      10.2      5.7        5.0
  54. Intrauterine instillation        10.4       6.0      3.1        1.5
  55. Hysterotomy/hysterectomy          0.6       0.2      0.1       <0.05
  56. Other                             0.5       0.9      1.3        0.7
  57.   Weeks gestation
  58. 8 and under                      34.0      47.0     51.7       50.8
  59. 9-10                             30.7      28.0     26.2       26.2
  60. 11-12                            17.5      14.4     12.2       12.3
  61. 13-15                             8.4       4.5      5.2        5.9
  62. 16-20                             8.2       5.1      3.9        3.9
  63. 21 and over                       1.3       0.9      0.9        0.8
  64.  
  65. -- 
  66. Pro-Choice                 Anti-Roe                     - E. Elizabeth Bartley
  67.             Abortions should be safe, legal, early, and rare.
  68.  
  69. Cthulhu for President -- when you're tired of voting for the lesser of 2 evils.
  70.