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The Numbers
As of 2018, over 60 million babies have been aborted since Roe/Doe. Nearly one million babies are aborted every year.
Watch this video to visualize how large that number is. As the numbers rise, entire states are removed, symbolizing the loss of their entire population to abortion.
What Are the Most Common Reasons for Women Choosing Abortion?
- Feel they are not ready for another child/Timing is wrong 25%
- Feels she can't afford baby 23%
- Finished with childbearing/Children are grown 19%
- Fear of being a single mother 8%
- Feels she isn't mature enough 7%
- Physical/Health problems 4%
- Feels child would interfere with future plans 4%
- Possible health problems affecting the fetus 3%
- Victim of rape .5%
- Other 6%
See current Oregon abortion statistics here
Source:Lawrence B., Finer, Lori F., Frohwirth, Lindsay, A. Dauphinee, Susheela Singh, and Ann M. Moore. “Reasons U.S. Women Have Abortions: Quantitative and Qualitative Perspectives,” Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 2005, 37(3):110-118.
