Civics Solutions

Weigh Your Options

• Use condoms• Think be for you act• Consider the What if…..• Think about the things that can happen in

your future pregnancy

Possible Solutions

• Offer free condoms• Make giving up the baby for adoption easier• Stop having unprotected sex if you don’t want

to have a baby• Take birth control

Facts• In 2010, unmarried women accounted for 85% of all abortions (CDC).• Women living with a partner to whom they are not married account for 25% of abortions but only

about 10% of women in the population (NAF).• In 2010, women who had not aborted in the past accounted for 55.6% of all abortions; women

with one or two prior abortions accounted for 36.7%, and women with three or more prior abortions accounted for 7.7% (CDC).

• Among women who obtained abortions in 2010, 40.3% had no prior live births; 45.9% had one or two prior live births, and 13.8% had three or more prior live births (CDC).

• Women between the ages of 20-24 obtained 32.9% of all abortions in 2010; women between 25-29 obtained 24.5% (CDC).

• Women in their 20's have the highest abortion rates. In 2010, women aged 20-24 had 27.4 abortions for every one thousand 20-24 year-old women. Women aged 25-29 had 20.4 abortions for every one thousand 25-29 year-old women (CDC).

• 51% of U.S. women obtaining abortions are younger than 25; women aged 20-24 obtain 33% of all U.S. abortions, and teenagers obtain 18% (AGI).

• In 2010, adolescents under 15 years obtained .05% of all abortions, but had the highest abortion ratio, 851 abortions for every 1,000 live births (CDC).