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Abortions Performed in Georgia By Year
2004 – 32,708
2003 – 34,545
2002 – 34,298
2001 – 33,545
2000 – 31,680
1999 – 33,095
1998 – 32,349
1997 – 32,702
1996 – 35,790
1995 – 35,178
1994 – 36,374
1993 – 37,819
1992 – 38,052
1991 – 38,407
1990 – 39,245
1989 – 35,857
1988 – 32,068
1987 – 36,439
1986 – 32,571
1985 – 35,130
1984 – 33,782
1983 – 33,920
1982 – 33,113
1981 – 31,888
1980 – 33,288

GEORGIA 2005 STATISTICS:
Analysis of 2005 Stats: PDF
2005 Stats by County: PDF

MOST AMERICANS OPPOSE
MOST ABORTIONS
Public opinion polls have clearly and consistently shown that the overwhelming majority of the American people do not believe abortion should be legal except under a few, very rare, circumstances: when the mother's life is endangered by continuing the pregnancy, when the pregnancy results from rape or incest, and, to a lesser extent, when the baby will be born with a handicap.
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NATIONAL STATISTICS
Births
Abortion
Abortion Services
Reasons Women Abort
Adoption
Incidence of Abortion
Who has Abortions
Providers and Coverage
Teen Statistics

Special Report:
Statistics before Roe v. Wade
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Since 1973, there have been over 47,000,000 abortions in the United States.
That's 1,300,000 babies every year
That's 108,333 babies every month
That's 27,083 babies every week
That's 3,735 babies every day
That's 155 babies every hour
That's 2.6 babies every minute
That's 1 baby every 25 seconds!
(Source: Alan Guttmacher Institute)

Unplanned Pregnancies:
48% of pregnancies are unplanned.
47% of unplanned pregnancies result in abortions.
24.5% of conceived children are aborted.
(Source: Alan Guttmacher Institute)

The total number of US abortions is equal to...
...7 times the number of Jews murdered in WWII concentration camps.
...15,151 times the number of people who died in the 9/11 attacks.
...17,478 times the number of deaths at the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

Abortion is the #1 cause of death annually in the United States...
...more than heart disease and cancer deaths combined.
...more than stroke, lung disease, accidents, pneumonia, suicide, diabetes, kidney disease, liver disease and HIV combined.
...88 times the number of homicides.
(Source: Centers for Disease Control)

Did you notice how many babies are killed a day? Look again. There were almost 3,000 innocent lives lost on September 11, 2001. That means that more innocent babies are killed every day in America then were killed on 9/11! Every day, 365 days a year, 7 days a week (because Planned Parenthood is open on Sundays) for the last 32 years! That is a holocaust.

ABORTION IS ONE OF THE MOST COMMON SURGICAL PROCEDURES IN THE UNITED STATES! (According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute which is an affiliate of Planned Parenthood, the world's largest abortion provider).

Sources for the Following Information:
1. Alan Guttmacher Institute, www.agi-usa.org
2. Jones RK, Darroch JE and Henshaw, SK. “Patterns in the Socioeconomic Characteristics of Women Obtaining Abortions in 2000-2001”. Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 2002, 34(5): 226-235
3. Henshaw, SK. “Unintended Pregnancy in the United States.” Family Planning Perspectives, 1998, 30(1):24-29 & 46
4. Alan Guttmacher Institute. “Sharing Responsibility: Women, Society and Abortion Worldwide”. New York: AGI, 1999
5. Henshaw SK and Finer LB. “The Accessibility of Abortion Services in the United States, 2001.” Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Heatlth, 2003, 35(1): 16-24.

BIRTHS

Every year, approximately 6.3 million American women became pregnant
About 60% of those pregnancies result in births, 25% end in abortions and 15% end in miscarriage
13% of all U.S. births are to teens, of which 78% are unmarried
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ABORTION

Each year, an estimated 48 million abortions occur worldwide

Since 1973 when abortion was legalized nationwide, over 45 million legal abortions have taken place

Georgia has one of the ten highest abortion rates in the US

In 2000, there were 1.31 million abortions, the lowest annual number since 1976

48% of pregnancies among American women are unintended; 60% of these pregnancies are ended by abortion

48% of women who obtain abortions each year have had at least one previous abortion.
One in three American women will have an abortion by the time she is 45
One in three American women will have an abortion by the time she is 45
The abortion rate (abortions per 1,000 women aged 15-44) declined between 1980 and 1997 from 29.3 to 21
Abortion rates are highest among women 20-30 years old, unmarried and white with at least a high school diploma if not post graduate degree
88.1% of abortions take place in the first 3 months of pregnancy; over 50% of all abortions take place in the first 8 weeks
Approximately 12% of abortions take place in the second or third trimester of pregnancy
78% of women having abortions report a religious affiliation
61% of women having abortions have one or more children
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ABORTION SERVICES

The average amount paid for a first-trimester non-hospital abortion is around $372, making abortion a $487,320,000-a-year business
The number of abortion mills declined 11% between 1996 and 2000 (from 2,042 to 1,819)
87% of all U.S. counties do not have an abortion mill
97% of abortion mills provide abortions at 8 weeks, 86% provide abortion services at 12 weeks, and 13% of abortion mills provide abortion services at 24 weeks
In 2004, there are 19 abortion providers in Georgia
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REASONS WOMEN ABORT

3/4 say that having a baby would interfere with work, school, or other responsibilities.

23% say they cannot afford to have a child.
Over 90% say they are having an abortion because of some type of "social" reason (convenience, money, not ready for a child, etc)
Rape and incest consist of less than 0.5% of all abortions.
(93% of women gave more than one reason, that is why the percentages overlap!)
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ADOPTION

NATIONAL ADOPTION WEEK is held annually the week of Thanksgiving.

Adopted children enjoy more socioeconomic advantages than children who remain with their unmarried birth mothers. Adoptive parents tend to be better-educated and older with higher incomes.
Only 1-2% of adopted adults "search" for their biological parents.
State and Federal adoption subsidy programs are available to assist parents with the costs of caring for a "special needs" child.
There are waiting lists of couples that would like to adopt infants with Downs Syndrome or spina bifida.
There are a large number of couples that would like to adopt terminally ill babies with AIDS.
Adolescents who were adopted as infants fare better in school, have more friends, enjoy higher self-esteem, and put more value on caring for others than teenagers who were not adopted.
There are 63,000 adopted children in Georgia
For more information on the closest adoption agency in your area, call: National Council for Adoption's Infant Adoption Awareness: (Toll Free) (866)21ADOPT(866-212-3678)
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INCIDENCE OF ABORTION

49% of pregnancies among American women are unintended; 1/2 of these are terminated by abortion.
In 2000, 1.31 million abortions took place, down from an estimated 1.36 million in 1996. From 1973 through 2000, more than 39 million legal abortions occurred.
Each year, 2 out of every 100 women aged 15-44 have an abortion; 48% of them have had at least one previous abortion and 61% have had a previous birth.
An estimated 33.3% of women will have at least 1 abortion by the time they are 45 years old.
Each year, an estimated 46 million abortions occur worldwide. Of these, 26 million procedures are obtained legally, 20 million illegally.
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WHO HAS ABORTIONS

52% of U.S. women obtaining abortions are younger than 25; Women aged 20-24 obtain 33% of all abortions, and teenagers obtain 19%.
2/3 of women having abortions intend to have children in the future.
While white women obtain 60% of all abortions, their abortion rate is well below that of minority women. Black women are more than 3 times as likely as white women to have an abortion, and Hispanic women are roughly 2.5 times as likely.
Never-married women obtain 2/3 of all abortions.
43% of women obtaining abortions identify themselves as Protestant and 27% identify themselves as Catholic.
On average, women give at least 3 reasons for choosing abortion: 3/4 say that having a baby would interfere with work, school or other responsibilities; about 2/3 say they cannot afford a child; and 1/2 say they do not want to be a single parent or are having problems with their husband or partner.
About 13,000 women have abortions each year because they became pregnant after rape or incest.
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PROVIDERS AND COVERAGE

73% of U.S. abortions are performed in clinics or doctors' offices.
In 2000, the cost of a non-hospital abortion at 10 weeks ranged from $150 to more than $4,000, and the average amount paid was $372.
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TEEN STATISTICS

The majority of young women become sexually active during their teenage years - the proportion who have had intercourse reaches at least three-quarters by age 20.
More than half of 17-year olds are no longer virgins.
Every year 3 million teens - about 1 in 4 sexually experienced teens - acquire an STD. That averages our to more than 8,200 different STD infections daily!
Every year, at least 800,000 teen girls - 10% of all women aged 15-19 and 19% of those who have had sexual intercourse - become pregnant.
40% of those teenage pregnancies end in abortion. That's over 320,000 teen abortions every year!
Teen pregnancy rates are much higher in the United States than in many other developed countries - twice as high as in England and Wales or Canada, and nine times as high as in the Netherlands or Japan.
68% of pregnant girls aged 10-15 are pregnant by adult men.