Other less-invasive methods are also available, such as taking medication to end the pregnancy or intrauterine instillation using chemical injections. However, like all medical treatments, abortion is not without its risks for complications.
Fortunately, the number of deaths due to abortions in the U. Preventing unwanted pregnancies In the U. One reason for the reduction in abortions is due to the effective use of contraceptive methods to prevent pregnancy. Public health methods targeted at preventing unwanted pregnancies also help to avert abortions as well. These strategies include increased sexual health education and awareness campaigns, as well as publicly funded contraceptive services providing increased access to contraceptives.
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Exclusive Corporate feature. Corporate Account. Statista Accounts: Access All Statistics. Basic Account. In , nearly half of pregnancies in the U. This reflects a 6 percent drop in unintended pregnancies since , largely due to Title X family planning programs and easier access to birth control. One of my patients is a working mother of two small children. She came to see me when her youngest was five months old. She was breastfeeding and did not think she could become pregnant.
Unintended pregnancy remains most common among poor women, women of color and women without a high school education. Women living in poverty have a rate of unintended pregnancy five times higher than those with middle or high incomes.
Black women are twice as likely to have an unintended pregnancy as white women. Barriers to birth control play a major role. Among women with unintended pregnancies, 54 percent were using no birth control.
Another 41 percent were inconsistently using birth control at the time of conception. Abortion is a routine part of reproductive health care. Approximately 25 percent of women in the U. The Guttmacher Institute, a research and policy institute in New York City, has been tracking these data for the last 50 years. American women have abortions with similar frequency to women living in other developed nations. The bulk of abortion patients are in their 20s. Women of all races and ethnicities choose abortion.
In , 39 percent of abortion patients were white, 28 percent were black and 25 percent were Latina. Similarly, women of all religious affiliations choose to end their pregnancies. Most of these women understand what it means to parent a child. More than half of abortion patients in were already mothers. Poor women account for the majority of abortion patients.
Fifty-three percent of women pay out-of-pocket for their abortion. The rest use private or state-funded insurance plans. Women choose abortion for multiple reasons. The most common reason cited is that pregnancy would interfere with education, work or ability to care of dependents.
Seventy-three percent of women reported that they could not afford a baby at the time.
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