Abortion Rates

As everbody knows abortion is an big issue in the United States. Many wonder if this is a wrong doing. According to USA Today, in 2000, 857,475 legal induced abortions were reported. Multiple abortions are the norm, not the exception. According to the survey, where the "number of previous abortions was adequately reported," 53% of women had an abortion for the first time in 2000. That means 47% of women having abortions in 2000 were not having their first abortion. Abortion rates vary significantly throughout the world. Among countries with comprehensive statistics, abortion rates per 1,000 women aged 15-44 in 1996 ranged from a low of 6.5 in the Netherlands to a high of 77.7 in Cuba. U.S. rates for that year (20.0-22.9) were inter-mediate, but higher than most other industrialized nations. http://www.abort73.com/HTML/II-A-US.html