Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Richer, Educated Women Have Fewer Abortions

The abortion rate overall has dropped 8% over from 2000 to 2008, according to a Guttmacher Institute study. However, the abortion rate for poor women rose 18%. This means that richer, better educated women are having fewer abortions.

Poor women now make up 42% of those who have abortions. If the present trend continues, within a decade I expect that poor women will have most of the one million plus annual abortions in this country.

Educated women are already marrying more and divorcing less than they did a decade ago. If they are also having fewer abortions, this bodes well for developing truly planned and sustained family life in the college class.

2 comments:

Storm said...

How many abortions were there in total during this time period? We treat life with such little respect don't we? I grieve for these aborted little ones and their mothers.

Anonymous said...

Maybe the government should help pay for these poor women's abortions?