The Guttmacher Institute, which advances sexual and reproductive health through an interrelated program of social science research, has concluded that each year two out of every one hundred women aged fifteen to forty-four have an abortion. Forty-eight percent of those women have had at least one previous abortion. The Guttmacher Institute has also found that fifty-two percent of women in the United States who have abortions are younger than twenty-five years old; Women aged twenty to twenty-four obtain thirty-three percent of all abortions, and teenagers obtain nineteen percent (Jones RK, Darroch JE, and Henshaw SK.) Studies prove that the number of women having abortions is completely out of control, especially among young women.
A poll conducted by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, concluded that ninety-four percent of adults in the United States believe teenagers should not engage in sexual activity until they are out of high school (“General Facts......
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