INCIDENCE OF ABORTION
• A total of 730,322 abortions were reported to Centers for Disease Control for 2011, the most recent year numbers are available. (Reporting is voluntary and not 100%.)
• In 2011, the total number of abortions decreased by 5% over 2010 numbers.
• The Associated Press reported in June, 2015, that nationwide the number of abortions decreased by an average 12% since 2010.
• CDC showed that 3,932,181 babies were born in the U.S. in 2013.
• In the United States, about half of all pregnancies are unintended.
• Of all unintended pregnancies, 4 in 10 are aborted.
• Twenty-one percent of all pregnancies in the U.S. end in abortion (not including natural miscarriages).
• There has been a steady decline in abortions since 1980.
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