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Henshaw, Stanley K. "Characteristics of U.S. Women Having Abortions, 1982-1983." Family Planning Perspectives 19, no. 1 (1987): 5-9. doi:10.2307/2135359.
In 1982 and 1983, as in previous years, most of the abortions in the U.S. was obtained by young women about 62 percent. 70 percent of the women were white, 81 percent were unmarried. Half of all abortion procedure was done eight or fewer weeks after their last menstrual period 91 percent was 12 weeks or earlier.
The proportion of abortions that were repeat procedures continued to rise, to 37 percent in 1982 and 39 percent in 1983. The rate of abortion, 29 per 1,000, has remained essentially the same since 1981. Women aged 18-19 continue to have the highest abortion rate of any age-group (60 per 1,000). While most abortions are obtained by white women, the nonwhite abortion rate is more than twice that of whites. Thirty percent of all pregnancies were terminated
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In the 1960s there was no federal law that regulated abortions. Abortions was banned from many states except if the mother was endangered. The battle began in Texas where the anonymous Jane Roe challenged the Texas law, and the case slowly made its way to the highest court in the land. Jane was pregnant and wanted to abort but in Texas they didn’t prohibit abortions yet. She ends up going to court twice fighting for her right. The issue about this case was that pro-life or pro-choice made an argument about which is the best choice. For me I feel like it’s better to be pro-choice just because of different situation such as being raped, or having a tough pregnancy. After, the court held that woman rights to get an abortion fell within the right to privacy that is in the Fourteenth Amendment. This decision allowed women to have total autonomy over their pregnancy in the first trimester. After this case 46 stated allowed abortion to take