
The Skeptics Guide #886 - Jul 2 2022
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
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Is There a Proper Proportion of Abortion?
We think it somewhere around 28 per one thousand women of child bearing age who have an abortion each year. That's about 28 % of known pregnancies, for a total of about forty three or forty four million. But again, that's very hard to track because of stigma, lack of reporting and a kind of abortions that are not done within medical settings. Overwhelmingly early in pregnancy, overwhelmingly younger women who lack social support, and who lack financial support, and women of color.
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