Title: More Than 400 Women Have Died From Legal Abortions Since 1973 | LifeNews.com
Headings: More Than 400 Women Have Died From Legal Abortions Since 1973
More Than 400 Women Have Died From Legal Abortions Since 1973
Content: If projected of the larger 1,212,400 figure reported by Guttmacher for 2008, that would be 98,204 babies aborted after 13 weeks! Because states define and report race and ethnicity in different ways, it is difficult to get a precise handle on such figures from the CDC, which reports different numbers for different data sets for the same year. Though they vary from table to table, Hispanics account for about 20% of abortions in the CDC’s 2009 report, while blacks account for somewhere between 35.4% and 39.8%. To get another idea of abortion’s disproportionate impact on minorities, consider the disparity in abortion rates. While the abortion rate was 8.4 per 1,000 for white women, it was 20.2 for Hispanic women, more than double. For black women, it was 29 per thousand, more than three times what it was for white women. Unmarried women, not surprisingly, continue to account for most abortions, though the percentage reported by the CDC for 2009 (85%) is the highest seen in some time. Though it surprises some people, CDC figures continue to show what previous CDC reports and surveys from Guttmacher show: that most women having abortions have already given birth to at least one child. According to the CDC, 59.9% of those having an abortion have already had at least one previous live birth.