From: dgp@venus.wustl.edu (Don Porter)
Newsgroups: talk.abortion
Subject: Re: The March in D.C.
Date: 14 Apr 92 21:09:14 GMT
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis Mo.

<1992Apr13.235012.25339@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> (Matthew A. Lewis) writes:
>BTW, just how many abortions are done to married women???
>I'm sure the number of abortions by unmarried, perhaps promiscuous
>women is alot higher. Statistics anyone???

These stats are old, but they're all I've got.  One chart is from
Elizabeth Bartley.  The other is one I looked up and typed in last year:

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From: eeb1@quads.uchicago.edu (e elizabeth bartley)

Try _The World Almanac_; there's a nice chart there.  I won't type in
the whole thing (wouldn't fit), but the figures for 1972, 1976, 1980,
and 1985 in the 1990 World Almanac (page 846; they also have figures
for 1981, 1982, 1983, & 1984) are:

                                 1972      1976     1980      1985
Reported # of legal abortions  586,760   988,267  1,297,606  1,328,570
Ratio per 1000 live births      180.1     312.0    359.2      353.8
Rate per 1000 women aged          13        21       25         24
     15-44 years      
                 Percentage distribution (excludes unknowns)
  Age (years)
19 and under                     32.6      32.1     29.2       26.3
20-24                            32.5      33.3     35.3       34.7
25 and over                      34.9      34.6     35.3       39.0
  Race
White                            77.0      66.6     69.6       66.6
Black and other                  23.0      33.4     30.1       33.4
  Marital status
Married                          29.7      24.6     23.1       19.3
Unmarried                        70.3      75.4     76.9       80.7
  No. live births (living
  children for 1972 and 1976)
0                                49.4      47.7     58.4       56.6
1                                18.2      20.7     19.5       21.3
2                                13.3      15.4     13.7       14.5
3                                 8.7       8.3      5.3        5.1
4 and over                       10.4       7.9      3.2        2.5
   Type procedure
Curettage                        88.6      92.8     95.5       97.8
 Suction                         65.2      82.6     89.8       92.9
 Sharp                           23.4      10.2      5.7        5.0
Intrauterine instillation        10.4       6.0      3.1        1.5
Hysterotomy/hysterectomy          0.6       0.2      0.1       <0.05
Other                             0.5       0.9      1.3        0.7
  Weeks gestation
8 and under                      34.0      47.0     51.7       50.8
9-10                             30.7      28.0     26.2       26.2
11-12                            17.5      14.4     12.2       12.3
13-15                             8.4       4.5      5.2        5.9
16-20                             8.2       5.1      3.9        3.9
21 and over                       1.3       0.9      0.9        0.8
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From: dgp@saturn.wustl.edu (Don Porter)

This is a chart from 1983, the most recent year in my source.  It's
numbers are in the same ballpark as those for other years from 1973
to 1983 (i.e. this year is not an anomaly):

1983 Abortions by Age, Race, Marital Status
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		Number		%		Rate*		Ratio+
Total		1,575,000	100.0		28.5		30.4

Age (years)
<15		   16,350	  1.0		 9.1#		46.0
15-19		  411,330	 26.1		43.5		42.2
 [15-17]	 [166,440]	[10.6]		[30.8]		
 [18-19]	 [244,890]	[15.5]		[60.4]
20-24		  548,130	 34.8		51.1		31.4	
25-29		  328,280	 20.8		31.1		22.5
30-34		  171,560	 10.9		17.8		23.0
35-39		   78,090	  5.0		 9.6		34.2
>40		   21,260	  1.4		 3.1@		51.4

Race
White		1,084,360	 68.8		23.3
Nonwhite	  490,640	 31.2		55.8

Marital Status
Married		  294,670	 18.7		10.3
Nonmarried	1,280,330	 81.3		48.1

* Abortion rate is number of abortions in this category per 1000 women
  in this category.
+ Abortion ratio is number of abortions in this category per 100 known
  pregnancies in this category (those not ending in miscarriage or 
  still birth).
# Population of 14 year old girls used in calculation.
@ Population of women aged 40-44 used in calculation.
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Sources:  
_USA by Numbers: A Statistical Portrait of the United States_. Zero
Population Growth.  Washington.  1988.

The information I cite comes originally from:
Henshaw, SK.  "Characteristics of US Women Having Abortions, 1982-1983."
_Family Planning Perspectives_, The Alan Guttmacher Institute, Vol. 19, 
No. 1, Tables 1 & 2, Jan./Feb. 1987.
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