Did you know?
There are about 46 million abortions worldwide every year.
There are about 126,000 elective pregnancy terminations worldwide every day.
On a worldwide average, each woman will go through at least 1 abortion in her lifetime.
Only 22% of abortions take place in developed countries.
Only 26 million (56.5% of the 46 million a year) are legal.
In the USA, 52% of the women that terminate pregnancies are younger than 25.
Black women are 3 times more likely than white women to abort.
Unmarried women account for 64% of abortions.
Only 1% of abortions occur because of rape, only 6% occur because there is a health risk to the mother or the baby. 93% of pregnancy terminations take place for social reasons.
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