Title: Facts About Abortion: U.S. Abortion Statistics
Headings: U.S. Abortion Statistics
U.S. Abortion Statistics
ANNUAL ABORTION STATISTICS
WHO HAS ABORTIONS?
WHY DO ABORTIONS OCCUR?
WHEN DO ABORTIONS OCCUR?
HOW DOES ABORTION TAKE PLACE?
WHO IS DOING THE ABORTIONS?
ABORTION FATALITY
THE COST OF ABORTION
ABORTION AND CONTRACEPTION
ABORTION AND MINORS
ABORTION AND PUBLIC FUNDS

Content: Among women who obtained abortions in 2018, 41% had no prior live births; 45% had one or two prior live births, and 14% had three or more prior live births (CDC). Among white women, 10% of 2018 pregnancies (excluding spontaneous miscarriages) ended in abortion. Among black women, 25% ended in abortion (CDC). Black women were more than 3.4 times more likely to have an abortion in 2018 than white women (CDC). The abortion rate of non-metropolitan women is about half that of women who live in metropolitan counties (NAF). The abortion rate of women with Medicaid coverage is three times as high as that of other women (NAF). In 2014, 30% of aborting women identified themselves as Protestant and 24% identified themselves as Catholic (AGI). WHY DO ABORTIONS OCCUR? In 2004, the Guttmacher Institute anonymously surveyed 1,209 post-abortive women from nine different abortion clinics across the country.