To be clear I'm pro choice but that number scares me, nobody should have to go through that trauma and if 1/5 or 1/6 pregnancy end in abortion the US needs to step up their sex Ed game.
Posted May 16, 2019, 11:00 AM UTC
Out of 327 million people, roughly 50% are women so we'll just make it easy and say roughly 163,000,000 women in the US and around 76 million are within the fertility age range and roughly 700,000 abortions. If you do the math it really isn't that many. These numbers are just estimates and could be wildly off or augmented to fit an agenda. There is no way to tell how many were viable pregnancies, especially considering the majority of abortions happen fairly early, within the first trimester. At that point there is still no guarantee that the pregnancy is viable, as many issue may arise in the second and even third trimester, then making the pregnancy unviable, but that isn't the point here. So yeah,lots of women, out of roughly 75 million approximately 700,000 will have an abortion, it's really not as many as people make it out to be.
I mean it's 700k per year but I get your point
I personally don't know anyone who has had one so I don't consider it a real "problem"
Yeah I get ya, and many women will have multiple abortions in their lifetime. My mom had a few in her lifetime, my friend had 2 in a year. So the statistics aren't always 100% accurate or spot on. The margin of error for abortion statistics is up above 40% at times so we should always be wary of the numbers given to us. But when you take into consideration birth and death rates and the amount of women that move into and out of fertility ages each year, the numbers stay nearly the same each year. And many of those women could have multiple abortions so it isn't always an easy stat to track.
Edit: you also may not be aware that you know anyone that has had an abortion because many women don't talk about it due to the stigma and fear of alienation, but if you know more than a handful of women then statistically speaking (even though we know it isn't always accurate) you are more likely to know at least one, if not several women, who have had an abortion or will have one.
thats czlled confirmation bias: nobody i know has X so it must not be an issue.
Anyway if you want to play that game I know several middle class women who chose to abort. One, then my best friend (an accountant from a good fmily), had two abortions in six months. She simply found all other forms of contraception inconvenient.
Yes you do, you just don’t know you do.
Which is still only 0.4% of women in any given year. I'm not sure what I would expect a reasonable number to be, but that seems pretty low.
I personally don't know anyone who has had one
You might.
Yeah the real problem is people just havent heard of condoms. Clearly sex ed is lacking.
Yes. The US does need to step up it's sex ed game. Colorado recently did a multiyear experiment with beefing up their sex ed game and making IUDs available for free.
Teen pregnancies dropped 54% and abortions dropped 64%.
While this far outpaced national trends, nationally there was also a general drop in trend in teen pregnancy from 2009-2017 (thanks Obama). While there is likely a variety of reasons behind that... that time period precisely corresponds to tading an administration supporting abstinence only sex ed with with an administration that supported more comprehensive sex ed.
10-15% of pregnancies end in miscarriages.
Yeah, but this is in addition to those. The CDC definition doesn't include spontaneous miscarriages.
Do those apply to the abortion statistic?
Is there a point where you know the child is not viable and get an abortion for the safety of the mother? How often does that happen?
I’m no expert, but I am cautious about giving any form of government total control of a woman’s body, especially when she isn’t always in control of hers.
I haven't seen anything that discusses the health of the baby and the mother, thank you now I will research it! But I am pretty sure that under 3% we're caused from rape. So it seems it's just another birth control. I feel like they should call the pill conception control.
There’s 140 million girls over the age of 13 in the US. If there’s 700k abortions that’s about .5 percent. But that’s not accurate because there is 140M girls. How many actual pregnancies are there? I don’t think there’s a real way to determine the actual number of pregnancies accurately.
There are just approx 70 million between the age of 10 and 44. If we ASSUME that one in every 10 girls gets pregnant, then the rate would be 10%
So 1/10 end in abortion. While this is pretty high.... it isn’t super shocking. Where did you calculate numbers?
https://www.statista.com/statistics/241488/population-of-the-us-by-sex-and-age/
There's a Wikipedia table from the CDC that says 200-300 abortions per 1000 live births
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_statistics_in_the_United_States?wprov=sfla1
It is absolutely correct that the U.S. needs to up its sex ed game. Conservative elements in many state governments have made it impossible for accurate sex ed information to be taught in schools. It also needs to make contraception more readily available, something that conservatives have also tried to prevent. All that said, though, abortion is hardly traumatic. It’s a simple outpatient procedure, rarely are there complications when provided by competent professionals (especially earlier in the pregnancy), and most women do not experience any significant physical or psychological side effects.
Almost none were viable. Only around 2% of all abortions are done past 20 weeks.
Well, if it helps, the number of abortions has generally been going down since the 90's.