Abortion Rate in the US

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Fri Oct 11 10:50:13 PDT 2002


On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Chris Doss wrote:


> Just in the interests of comparison, abortion rate in Russia is about
> 80%.

80% of what? The rate in the US according to that article was 21 per 1000 women of child-bearing age (per year implied, I think). Do you mean 80% of all women over their entire lifetime having at least one?

Michael



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