When in pregnancy are abortions done? This will answer that question
The following information comes from the Alan Guttmacher Institute:
This is when in pregnancy abortions are done:
| 23% | in the first 6 weeks — 301,300 annually |
| 34.5% | in the seventh or eighth week — 451,950 annually |
| 19.5% | in the ninth or tenth week — 255,450 annually |
| 10% | in the eleventh or twelfth week -131,000 annually |
| 6.0% | in the thirteenth through fifteenth weeks — 78,600 annually |
| 4.5% | in the sixteenth through twentieth weeks — 58,950 annually |
| 1.5% | at twenty-one weeks or more — 19,650 annually |
6 week baby:
301,300 annually
…..
7 week baby
8 week baby
451,950 annually
….
9 week baby
10 week baby
255,450 annually
….
11 week baby:
12 week baby
131,000 annually
….
14 week baby:
78,600 annually
….
16 week baby:
20 week baby
58,950 annually
…..
23 week baby
24 week baby
and older
19,650 annually
…..
The Alan Guttmacher Institute, “An Overview of Abortion in the United States” (2003). 4. Elam-Evans L et al., “Abortion surveillance–United States, 2000”, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 2003, 52(SS 12).
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