GEORGIA STATISTICS:
Analysis of 2007 Stats for State and by County: PDF
2006 Stats: PDF

NATIONAL STATISTICS
Births
Abortion
Abortion Services
Reasons Women Abort
Adoption
Incidence of Abortion
Who has Abortions
Providers and Coverage
Teen Statistics

Since 1973, there have been over 52,008,665 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... ...8.6 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).

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 50 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.