Background Estimates of pregnancies, abortions and pregnancy intentions can help assess
how effectively women and couples are able to fulfil their childbearing aspirations. Abortion …

Unintended pregnancies and unplanned births can have serious health, economic and
social consequences for women, their children and families (Gipson 2008). If the UN …

Background Information about the incidence of induced abortion is needed to motivate and
inform efforts to help women avoid unintended pregnancies and to monitor progress toward …

Background Unintended pregnancy and abortion estimates document trends in sexual and
reproductive health and autonomy. These estimates inform and motivate investment in …

Background Estimates of pregnancy incidence by intention status and outcome indicate how
effectively women and couples are able to fulfil their childbearing aspirations, and can be …

Introduction Internationally comparable estimates of unintended pregnancy and abortion
incidence can illuminate disparities in sexual and reproductive health and autonomy …

OBJECTIVE: To estimate abortion rates among subpopulations of women in 2008, assess
changes in subpopulation abortion rates since 2000, and estimate the lifetime incidence of …

Two recent efforts to quantify the causes of maternal deaths on a global scale generated
divergent estimates of abortion-related mortality. Such discrepancies in estimates of abortion …

50 Guttmacher Institute/IUSSP tion in measured fertility. These four factors are called the
principal proximate determinants of fertility. The small remaining amount of unexplained …

RESULTS We estimate that the number of abortions performed in the United States in 2001
was 1,303,000 (Table 1). This represents a decline of 0.8% from the 1,313,000 abortions …