Conference turris::womannotes-v2

232.0. "Abortion survey results" by BOLT::MINOW (Fortran for Precedent) Thu Oct 06 1988 16:32

There's a long article on abortion in today's (6-Oct-88) Boston Globe.

Each year,almost 3% of all women (ages 15-44) have abortions.

   Abortion patients   All women	Index
-- 18.5% married.	52.1%		0.36
    6.4% separated	 3.3%		1.94
   11.2% divorced	 8.2%		1.37
   63.3% never married	35.7%		1.77

-- 66.8% white		83.3		0.82
   31.4% non-white	16.7		1.88

-- 41.9% Protestant	57.9		0.72
   31.5% Catholic	32.1		0.98
    1.4% Jewish		 2.5		0.56
    2.9% Other		 2.0		1.45
   22.2% None		 5.5		4.04

   15.8% Evangelical	32.0		0.49
   84.2% Not born again	68.0		1.24

"Index" is the ratio between the percentage of abortion patients to the
percentage of all women.  A value greater than 1 means an abortion rate
higher than the national average.

 +------ Cited reason
 |  +-- Cited as most important
 v  v
76 16 Baby could change her life.
68 21 Can't afford baby now.
51 12 Problems with relationship or avoidance of single-parenthood
31 21 Unready for responsibility
31  1 Doesn't want others to know she has had sex or is pregnant
30 11 Too young or immature.
26  8 Has all the children she wants, or has grown-up children
23  1 Husband or partner wants her to have abortion
13  3 Fetus has possible health problem
 7  3 Woman has possible health problem
 7  <.5 Parent's want her to have abortion
 1  1 Victim of rape or incest
 6  3 Other

The study was conducted by the Alan Guttmacher Institute, a private
nonprofit research group organization in New York.

    re:.1
    
    Maybe yes, maybe no. That might be included in the "Other"
    category.
    
    --- jerry