Abortion statistics please

[sandnsea]

Yeah I should google it up. My brain is fried and still not functioning well.

When did we outlaw "partial birth abortion". Has there been enough time to see whether there are less late term abortions or NO late term abortions? I don't think that's the case because we're just doing different abortions. Has anybody already done these statistics up or know where I can get statistics since the partial birth ban.

Thanks. We need to put together a wig business. We're going to need them after we've pulled the last hair out of our heads, which ought to be relatively soon with all the idiotic posts around here lately.

Aaaargh!

[Ducks In A Row]

1. don't worry about it. just watch the peterson trial.

:)

[CTyankee]

2. Alan Guttmacher Institute

The gold standard for public health officials looking for good stats on abortion and on any other reproductive health issue, in the U.S. and abroad. The website I think is www.agi.org. You can also contact Planned Parenthood Federation of American at www.ppfa.org.

[cali]

3. So called PBA legislation

has not gone into effect. The dolts passed it without any exception for the health of the woman and two fed courts have prevented it from becoming law. The PBA legislation was even more cynical than the constitutional ban on gay marriage. Phony grandstanding of the worst order. In the case of the latter, it failed as it required a two thirds vote, the former passed, but everyone knew that it wouldn't become law. It's my understanding that the number of late term abortions is tiny.

[sandnsea]

6. Thanks

So we'll never get statistics to show that this law didn't reduce late term abortions at all because it was all bullshit to begin with. And we'll keep fighting about it because the law will never be put into place. Just so damned frustrating.

[whistle]

4. Abortion Rates Decline from 1992 thru 2000, and after that....

...in Bush's 1st trem the abortions again began to rise.

<link> http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2004/11/number_of_us_ab.html

<Link> http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0764203.html

Abortion Rates Decline
Source: Centers for Disease Control
From 1990 (the year in which the number of abortions was highest) to 1995, the annual number of legal induced abortions in the United States declined by 15%. From 1995 to 1996, the number increased slightly and then decreased again in 1997. This change in the number of abortions reported to the Centers for Disease Control may indicate that the number of legal abortions in the United States is leveling off.

Since 1990, factors contributing to the continued decrease in the proportion of pregnancies that ended in abortion might include a decrease in the number of unintended pregnancies, changes in contraceptive practices (including an increased use of condoms among young women), reduced access to abortion services, and possible changes in attitudes concerning abortion.

U.S. Abortion Statistics, 1972–2000
1972 1980 1985 1990 1995 1997 1999 2000
Reported no.
legal abortions 586,760 1,297,606 1,328,570 1,429,247 1,210,883 1,186,039 861,789 857,475
Abortion ratio1 180 359 354 344 311 306 256 245
Abortion rate2 13 25 24 24 20 20 17 16
Percentage distribution
Age group (yrs)
<=19 32.6% 29.2% 26.3% 22.4% 20.1% 20.1% 19.2% 18.8%
20–24 32.5 35.5 34.7 33.2 32.5 31.7 32.2 32.8
>=25 34.9 35.3 39.0 44.4 47.4 48.2 48.6 48.4
Marital status
Married 29.7 23.1 19.3 21.7 19.7 19.0 19.2 18.7
Unmarried 70.3 76.9 80.7 78.3 80.3 81.0 80.8 81.3

NOTE: The number of areas reporting a given characteristic varied.
1. Number of legal induced abortions per 1,000 live births.
2. Number of legal induced abortions per 1,000 women aged 15–44 years.
Source: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Abortion Surveillance: Preliminary Analysis—United States, 2000.

[flpoljunkie]

5. From Planned Parenthood only 1.5% of abortions occur after 20 weeks

http://www.plannedparenthood.org/library/facts/abotaft1st_010600.html

Since the legalization of abortion throughout the U.S. in 1973, abortion services have become more widely accessible and knowledge of them has grown. As a result, the overwhelming majority of abortions are performed in the first trimester of pregnancy. For a number of reasons, however, abortion after the first trimester remains a necessary option for some women.

Unfortunately, anti-choice zealots seek to limit access to abortion through, among other means, laws imposing a fixed date for fetal viability and bans that would outlaw safe, medically appropriate abortions as early as 12 to 15 weeks in pregnancy. The hidden agenda of these zealots is to make all abortions illegal.

In fact, the same anti-choice activists who would limit access to abortions after the first trimester also oppose access to abortion in the first trimester by advancing numerous restrictions, including parental involvement laws and mandatory delay laws. Also, by asserting their bias at a local level through picketing doctors' homes and offices, clinic blockades, threats of violence against doctors, and the misapplication of zoning laws, etc., they create a climate so threatening that the number of qualified providers is diminished. These actions endanger the health of women and the right of physicians to determine the most appropriate treatment for their clients.

The Number of Abortions after the First Trimester Is Relatively Small. Between 1996 and 2000, the number of abortions in the United States fell from 1.36 million to 1.31 million (Finer & Henshaw, 2003). The CDC estimates that 58 percent of legal abortions occur within the first eight weeks of gestation, and 88 percent are performed within the first 12 weeks. Only 1.5 percent occur after 20 weeks (CDC, 2003).

[sandnsea]

7. This is what frustrates me

I knew those statistics. I also knew that even if the "partial birth" bill were enacted it wouldn't change anything because those abortions are medically necessary. But we'll never have those statistics because "partial birth" isn't constitutional and that's the reason they wrote the law the way they wrote the law. And damn our Democratic congress people who play this bullshit game.