Abortion, not as scarce as it should be

As it turns out 49% of pregnancies among American women are not intentional and half of these are terminated by abortion. Every year, 46 million abortions occur throughout the world. 52% of U.S. women who have abortions are under the age of 25. This would tell me that people who are having sex at a young age and when pregnancy occurs, women are too afraid to carry the child to birth. Luckily, this problem seems like a fixable one to me. The reason is unknown to me, but black women are 3 times as likely as white women to have an abortion, and Hispanic women are 2.5 times as likely. I'm sure religion has some role in these statistics. I found that 43% of women obtaining abortions identify themselves as Protestant, and 27% identify themselves as Catholic. Women usually give three common reasons for having the abortion. Most say that it would interfere with work or school. Though there were solid reasons given, not one of these three excuses touched on the topic of adoption.

http://www.agi-usa.org/pubs/fb_induced_abortion.html