I was able to find a website giving me all of the information of abortions up to 2006 and it was very shocking to understand the increases/decreases. The percentages of the states are very interesting to see which ones have fewer and which have highest rates. The table that is located in the website was very detailed data that said what age, what race, and what state the teen girls lived in. To me abortion is a very controversial and depends on a person’s morals and religion.
• The 2006 teenage abortion rate was 19.3 abortions per 1,000 women. This figure was 56%
lower than its peak in 1988, but 1% higher than the 2005 rate.
• From 1986 to 2006, the proportion of teenage pregnancies ending in abortion declined almost
one-third, from 46% to 32% of pregnancies among 15–19-year-olds.
Teenage abortion rates were highest in New York (41 per 1,000), New Jersey, Nevada,
Delaware and Connecticut.
• By contrast, teenagers in South Dakota (6 per 1,000), Utah, Kentucky, Nebraska and North
Dakota all had abortion rates of eight or fewer per 1,000 women aged 15–19
http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/USTPtrends.pdf
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