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Abortion Statistics

In the U.S., about 4,000 children are killed in their mothers' wombs every day.


National Right to Life Committee -- Abortion in the United States -- Statistics
http://www.nrlc.org/ABORTION/facts/abortionstats2.html
"In the United States alone, there have been over 48 million abortions since 1973. ... There were over 3,500 abortions per day (in the US) in 2003, 146 per hour, about one every 25 seconds. ... In 2003, more children died from abortion than Americans died in the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, World Wars I and II, the Korean, Vietnam and Gulf Wars combined."
To see the sources of the statistics, go to the following: http://www.nrlc.org/ABORTION/facts/abortionstats.html


Facts on Induced Abortion in the United States
http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_induced_abortion.html
"Twenty-two percent of all pregnancies (excluding miscarriages) end in abortion. ... Forty percent of pregnancies among white women, 69% among blacks and 54% among Hispanics are unintended. ... Each year, about two percent of women aged 15-44 have an abortion; 47% of them have had at least one previous abortion."