Five Interesting Numbers About Abortion in America

Rand Paul has gotten abortion back in the headlines this week.  Between listening to him and the chair of the DNC, it's tough to figure out what exactly the state of abortion is in America today.  So...let's just look at some numbers.

1.  In America, about half of all pregnancies are unintended, and about 4 in 10 of these are aborted.  About 21% are for financial reasons, 3% are for possible health reasons, 1% are because of rape and incest, and the 75% are other.

2.  I have had nearly 58 million abortions since Roe v Wade in 1973 and over 300,000 this year, accounting for a little less than 3% of abortions worldwide (with the highest rate of any industrialized western nation).  One in three American women will have one.

3.  In the latest Gallup poll, 47% of Americans consider themselves pro-life and 46% pro-choice.  (Incidentally, 19% need a candidate to agree with them, 48% factor it in, and 28% don't care.)

4. About 33% of my abortions occur within the first six weeks of pregnancy.  About 5% are after the sixteenth week.  (Here is what that looks like.)

5.  About 54% of women having an abortion used contraception.

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