Percent Of Abortion

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In the United States, more than fifty percent of pregnancies are unintended with fifty percent ending in abortions. Fifty three percent of the unplanned pregnancies occur in ten percent of women who do not use contraception. Fifty five percent of the women getting abortions are under twenty five years of age, with twenty one percent of that being teenagers. Statistically, women who come from a poor background are three times more likely to have an abortion than women who are in the middle-class or upper-class group. Specifically, single women who came from a family with an annual income of less than twenty five thousand dollars were more likely to have an abortion. Of the fifty three percent of women who get abortions, sixty three come from