Risking the Future Adolescent Sexuality, Pregnancy, and Childbearing, Volume II Statistical Appendices only (1987) / Chapter Skim
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4. Induced Abortion Among Adolescents
4. Induced Abortion Among Adolescents
Pages 77-94
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The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) carry out abortion surveillance which includes reports of abortions from most State health agencies, some hospitals, or from State participants in the Cooperative Health Statistics Registry of the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
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on the basis of its annual survey of clinics and other abortion providers combined with data on patient characteristics reported by most states to the Centers for Disease Control. In 1982 there were 14,590 abortions to women under age 15, over 168,000 to women aged 15 to 17, and over 250,000 to women aged 18 to 19.
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For all women under age 20, there were slight decreases in the abortion rates between 1981 and 1982. Data on the percent of pregnancies terminated by abortion for 1982 were not available.
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K Prager, "Induced Terminations of Pregnancy: Report ing States, 1981" NCHS, Monthly Vital Statistics Report, Vol.
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The highest abortion rates among unmarried women were between the ages of 18 and 29, while the highest abortion rates for married women were for those women under age 20. Black women were considerably more likely to have an abortion than white women, particularly black married women.
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T ietze, "Race- Specif ic Patterns of Abortion Use by American Teenagers," American Journa1 of Public Health, 72: 809, 1982. Reprinted by permission.
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The abortion rate was 17 per one thousand black women in 1972 and 51 per 1, 000 in 1978. By 1978 the abortion rate for black teenagers had increased to twice the rate for whites.
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The data on abortions are from the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and the data on births are from National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
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7 197.1 580.1 30-3 years 254 .2 201. 7 598.3 35-39 years 443.2 371.0 836.5 40 years and over 837.8 784.5 1,120.3 Note: The 12-State area includes Colorado, Kansas , Missour i Montana, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tenne ssee, Utah, Ve rmont, and Vi rg in ia.
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The data, collected from 12 states, are provided by National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
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1 83. 9 18-19 years 77.6 79.6 70.8 20-24 years 62.2 65.1 54.5 25-19 years 54.8 57.9 47.1 30-34 years 56.4 60.0 47.0 35-39 years 60.1 65.8 48.0 40 years and over 67.2 72.2 54.5 \ Note: The 12-State area includes Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Montana, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, and Virginia.
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Finally, among women aged 18 to 19 having an abortion in 1980, 77.6 percent had not had a previous abortion -- 79.6 percent of white women and 70.8 percent of black women.
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