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//Medical and Ethical Questions Concerning Abortion//. (2008). Retrieved August 16, 2012, from GALE CENGAGE Learning.

1. Abortion was much more common in the United States in the years before 1800. 2. After 1800, it became much less common. 3. Abortion was thought of as, under certain circumstances, a criminal offense. 4. Some abortions – those were that vital to the woman's health – would often occur despite the laws, mainly for richer women. 5. Poorer women would try to self-induce the abortion or obtain one from the untrained, endangering their own health 6. About half of teens ages 15 to 19 have abortions at eight or less weeks of gestation. 7. Fifty-eight percent of women ages 25 to 29 have an abortion at eight weeks or less of gestation. 8. Sixty-five percent of women over 30 years old have an abortion at eight weeks or less of gestation. 9. Over ninety percent of all abortions that take place occur at fifteen weeks of less of gestation. 10. Less than 0.3% of women who have safe abortions must be hospitalized due to complications. 11. Between 20% and 50% of women who have unsafe abortion must be hospitalized for complications. 12. Of deaths caused by abortion, 87% of them could have been avoided had the abortion taken place during the first eight weeks of gestation. 13. Of the 40% to 45% of women who experience pre-abortion anxiety, their worry declines after the abortion takes place. 14. About 30% of women still have anxiety a month post-abortion. 15. Most women have no long-term negative psychological effects due to abortion.