Quick Links Home Abortion  Stem Cell Research & Cloning Partial Birth Abortion  Abortion & Breast Cancer Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia What Abortion Does Radio Show		How Many Abortions?    •49 million abortions in America since 1973.   •1.3 million every year.  •3,600 abortions per day •149 per hour •1 every 24 seconds.   •3 in 10 children conceived since 1973 have been aborted. How Many Are 49 Million Abortions? All The People In California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah and Oregon combined! Repeat Abortions: Nearly half of all abortions are obtained by women who have already had at least one abortion. (Repeat Abortion in the United States Rachel K. Jones, Susheela Singh, Lawrence B. Finer and Lori F. Frohwirth Occasional Report No. 29, November 2006, http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/2006/11/21/or29.pdf) In 1994 and 1995, women with 3 or more previous abortions obtained 7% of all abortions-nearly 100,000-each year. Who Are Aborting? 50% of U.S. women obtaining abortions are younger than 25 Women aged 20-24 obtain 33% of all abortions  Teenagers obtain of all abortions 17% Thirty-seven percent of abortions occur to black women, 34% to non-Hispanic white women, 22% to Hispanic women and 8% to women of other races  43% of women obtaining abortions identify themselves as Protestant, and 27% identify themselves as Catholic.  2/3 of all abortions are among never-married women. Over 60% of abortions are among women who have had 1 or more children (Alan Guttmacher Institute, Facts on Induced Abortion in the United States, July 2008) Note: Black women are more than 3 times as likely and Hispanic women are 2 1/2 times likely as white women to have an abortion. Teen abortion numbers. Every year, there are about 250,000 teenage pregnancies.  15-19 have 18.6% of all abortions 15 and younger have 0.7% of all abortions. Most girls will be impregnated by an adult man 5 years older. Nevada Abortions. There Are Are Almost 10,000 Abortions Every Year in Nevada. (Nevada Vital Statistics, 2004, Table 54. Induced Abortions by County of Residence, Nevada, 1999-2004) Over 21 Percent of Unborn Children Are Aborted Every Year. (Nevada Vital Statistics, 2004 Figure 33,  Outcome of Pregnancy, Nevada Residents 2004) Almost 49 Percent Are Repeat Abortions. (Nevada Vital Statistics, 2004, Figure 32. Percentage of All Induced Abortions by Number of Previous Abortions, Nevada Residents, 2004) Return to the abortion information page