Abortion

Abortion has become very common around the world. In 54 countries, 61% of the world population has abortions and are legal, and in 97 countries 39% of the world population has abortions illegally. There are approximately 46 million abortions conducted each year, and 20 million of them are obtained illegally. There are approximately 126,000 abortions conducted each day.
In the United States, approximately 1,370,000 abortions occur annually. In 2001, 1.31 million abortions took place. They found out that 88% of abortions occur during the first 6 to 12 weeks of pregnancy; also 60% of abortions are performed on women who already have one or more children. 47% of abortions are performed on women who have already had one or more abortions, and the saddest thing is that 43% of women will have had at least one abortion by the time they are 45 years old.
Demographics show that the majority of women getting an abortion are young, 52% are younger than 25 years old and 19% are teenagers. The abortion rate is highest for those women that are 18 to 19 years old. In 1992, 56 per 1,000 women in that age had abortions. 51% of women who are unmarried when they become pregnant will receive an abortion. Unmarried women are 6 times more likely to have an abortion than married women and 67% of abortions are from women who have never been married. 63% of abortion patients are white, however, black women are more than 3 times as likely to have an abortion, and Hispanic women are 2.5 times as likely. And finally 43% of women getting an abortion claimed they were Protestant, while 27% claimed they were Catholic. So as you can see abortion is a very big issue not only un the U.S but around the world.