One in Four Women Have Had an Abortion in Their Lifetime?

We did a survey, a national representative study of people ing abortions in the us. And we asked them if they'd had a previous abortion. About half of them had. But using that, those data, we broke it out by age group among people obtaining abortions. We said, what proportion of people in this age group are obtaining their first abortion? And then we estimated a cumulative abortion rate for each age group. It's now one in four women have had an abortion in a lifetime. Yet, using data from 20 14? Yes, strictly speaking, this is a kind of composite estimate. For older women, it's historical counting the number who have had abortions. For younger women is