48% Women have abortions?

[Liberanosamalo]

Is that surgical abortions or chemical abortions? I think that sends the figures way up.

 

[dulcissima]

That’s one in three unexpected pregnancies - not one in three of all pregnancies. It’s an important distinction.

Two thirds of women who weren’t expecting to get pregnant are still keeping their children alive, and that’s good news. We just have to educate the other one third.

I realize that even one is too many, but things are still not as bad as they are being made out to be - the majority of people are still choosing life.

I would think that the rate for abortions for intended pregnancies would be practically zero. Although I guess that isn’t always true. I do know one woman who terminated a planned pregnancy since the baby had downs syndrome. I also know another who changed her plans after her husband left her. Heartbreaking to think about.

I guess you are right though that it is good news that the majority of women who have unexpected pregnancies chose to keep the baby.

 

[KarenNC]

Is that surgical abortions or chemical abortions? I think that sends the figures way up.

Depends on how you define chemical abortion. For the purposes of the CDC statistics:

 "Legal induced abortion was defined as a procedure, performed

by a licensed physician or someone acting under the supervision
of a licensed physician, that was intended to terminate a
suspected or known intrauterine pregnancy and to produce a
nonviable fetus at any gestational age (1,2).
For women whose type of procedure was adequately reported,
89% of abortions were known to have been performed
by curettage (which includes dilatation and evacuation
[D&E]) and 0.9% by intrauterine instillation (Table 8). Hysterectomy and hysterotomy were included in the “other” procedure category and were known to have been used in <0.01%
of all abortions. Thirty-six reporting areas submitted information
regarding performance of medical (nonsurgical) procedures, hereafter referred to as medical abortions. Known
medical abortions make up approximately 8% of all procedures
reported from the 45 areas with adequate reporting on
type of procedure. In addition, three areas that did not collect
data separately for medical abortions on their abortion reporting
form included medical abortions in the “other” category.
For the 36 areas that reported medical abortions
separately, 55,048 medical abortion procedures were performed
in 2003. Five states reported that no medical abortions
were performed in 2003 but did not specify whether
such abortions were available. For the 32 states that reported
one or more medical abortion for both 2003 and 2002, the
data reflect an increase of 47%, from 36,231 in 2002 to 53,379
in 2003 (6). The extent to which the 55,408 medical abortions
reported to CDC for 2003 represent the use of this procedure
in all reporting areas is unknown."

 

[Renton405]

That’s 1 out of 50 women

when you say that does that include the WHOLE population of women(pregannt and not) or just the pregnant population??