Did You Know?
- From 1973 until now more than 40 million legal abortions have taken place in the United States.1
- Over one million women in this country will choose abortion this year when faced with an unexpected pregnancy.4
- An estimated 43% of American women will have at least one abortion in their lifetime, if current abortion rates continue.2
- One in six women who choose abortion will describe herself as an evangelical Christian.4
- Some studies suggest that over half of women who seek post abortion counseling have been sexually abused sometime during their life.
- While an abortion terminates her pregnancy it cannot end the maternal instinct in a woman and the eventual awareness of the loss of a child.
- It has been estimated that approximately 90% of all post-abortive women will experience moderate to severe emotional or psychiatric stress following an abortion. Up to 10% require hospitalization or other professional treatment.3
- One to two percent of post-abortive women suffer such severe trauma as to render them unable to work.3
- Post-abortive women face a suicide risk nine times greater than women who have not had an abortion.3
1www.abortiontv.com/abortionstatistics.htm
2US News & World Report. January 19, 1998
3Aborted Women, Silent No More, David C. Reardon, ©1987 Crossway Books
4"Induced Abortion," Facts in Brief, The Alan Guttmacher Institute, January ©1998
