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: 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. About a quarter (26.6%) had previously born one child, while a third (33.3%) had given birth to two children or more before having their abortions. Among states reporting such data, 44.6% of women had at least one previous abortion in the CDC’s 2009 report. Two previous abortions were reported by 11.4%, with 8.1% reporting three or more. CLICK LIKE IF YOU’RE PRO-LIFE! While the absence of California and other states somewhat skews the data, affecting not only totals but things like minority and ethnic distribution, numbers from the CDC do give us a useful sketch of the state of abortion in America.