Category: Did you know?

Abortion: Did you know?

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  1. From Roe v. Wade in 1973 through 2011, nearly 53 million legal abortions were performed in the United States. An average of about 1.4 million abortions per year.
  2. At 2008 abortion rates, three in ten US women will have an abortion before the age of 45.
  3. Although Catholic and Lutheran churches oppose abortion, more of their members believe abortion should be legal in all or most cases versus illegal in all or most cases. (51% vs 45% Lutheran, 48% vs 45% Catholic)
  4. A woman’s risk of dying from having an abortion is 0.6 in 100,000, while the risk of dying from giving birth is around 14 times higher (8.8 in 100,000). The mortality rate of a colonoscopy is more than 40 times greater than hat of an abortion.
  5. 9.3% of abortions reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2011 were undergone by women who had three or more previous abortions.
  6. More US state abortion restrictions were enacted between 2011 and 2013 (205 in total) than were adopted during the whole previous decade (189).