According to a report by the Guttmacher Institute, more than 50 percent of the pregnancies among American women are unintended pregnancies are terminated by abortion.

Abortion in the US

.More than 50% of the pregnancies among American women are unintended--1/2 of these are terminated by abortion.

.93% of abortions take place in clinics or doctor's offices, not hospitals.

.The number of abortion providers declined by 8% between 1988 and 1992 (from 2,582 to 2,380).

.In 1992, there were 1.5 million abortions in the United States. From 1973 to 1992, more than 28 million legal abortions took place in the United States.

.89% of abortions take place in the first trimester of pregnancy.

.The majority of women obtaining abortions are young: 56% are under age 25, including about 23% who are teenagers; only 22% are 30 and older.

.18-19-year-old women have the highest abortion rate--59 per 1,000 women.

.For every $1 spent by government to pay for abortions for poor women, about $4 is saved in public medical and welfare expenditures incurred as a result of the unintended birth.

Statistics courtesy of the Alan Guttmacher Institue.