- Nearly one in four women in the United States (23.7%) will have an abortion by age 45
- Source: Guttmacher Institute
- 59% of women obtaining abortions are mothers
- Source: Guttmacher Institute
- 2/3 of abortions occur at 8 weeks of pregnancy or earlier
- Source: Guttmacher Institute
- 89% of abortions occur in the first 12 weeks
- Source: Guttmacher Institute
- A first-trimester abortion is one of the safest medical procedures and carries minimal risk: Major complications (those requiring hospital care, surgery or transfusion) occur at a rate of less than 0.5%
- Source: Guttmacher Institute
- Medication abortions accounted for 31% of all nonhospital abortions, and for 45% of abortions before nine weeks’ gestation
- Source: Guttmacher Institute
- 51% of abortion patients were using a contraceptive method in the month they became pregnant, most commonly condoms (24%) or a hormonal method (13%)
- Source: Guttmacher Institute
- White patients accounted for 39% of abortion procedures, blacks for 28%, Hispanics for 25% and patients of other races and ethnicities for 9%
- Source: Guttmacher Institute
- 75% of abortion patients were poor or low-income. 26% of patients had incomes of 100–199% of the federal poverty level, and 49% had incomes of less than 100% of the federal poverty level ($15,730 for a family of two)
- Source: Guttmacher Institute
- More than half of all U.S. abortion patients were in their 20s: Patients aged 20–24 obtained 34% of all abortions, and patients aged 25–29 obtained 27%
- Source: Guttmacher Institute
- 12% of abortion patients were adolescents: Those aged 18–19 accounted for 8% of all abortions, 15–17-year-olds for 3% and those younger than 15 for 0.2%
- Source: Guttmacher Institute
- 70% of Women Who Get Abortions Identify as Christians
- Source: Christian Post
- As of January 1, 2018, all but 10 states had imposed at least one of five major abortion restrictions: unnecessary regulations on abortion clinics, mandated counseling designed to dissuade a woman from obtaining an abortion, a mandated waiting period before an abortion, a requirement of parental involvement before a minor obtains an abortion or prohibition on the use of state Medicaid funds to pay for medically necessary abortions.
- Source: Guttmacher Institute
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