• Reasons for abortion:
• Wants to postpone childbearing:  25.5%
• Wants no (more) children:  7.9%
• Cannot afford a baby:  21.3%
• Having a child will disrupt education or job: 10.8%
• Has relationship problem or partner does not want pregnancy: 14.1%
• Too young; parent(s) or other(s) object to pregnancy: 12.2%
• Risk to maternal health: 2.8%
• Risk to fetal health: 3.3%
• Other: 2.1% [Bankole, Akinrinola; Singh, Susheela; Haas, Taylor. "Reasons Why Women Have Induced Abortions: Evidence from 27 Countries."  International Family Planning Perspectives, 1998, 24(3)]
• There were 1.31 million abortions in the U.S. in 2000 [Alan Guttmacher Institute]
• Cases of rape or incest accounted for 1.0% of abortions in 2000 [Alan Guttmacher Institute]