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Originally Posted by somerfrost
I agree with one point, it certainly does seem that more and more young women are having babies today, when I lived in Ohio it seemed every girl I met had at least one child (I was managing a convenience store so the population I can speak to were employees and customers). Upon returning to Pa., I saw much the same thing...don't know whether my limited observations are in line with national statistics or not.
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Here are some unbiased sources for general stats on who is getting abortions and their reasons why (note: though it doesn't say so, we can safely assume 100 % of the people choosing induced abortion are female):
http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_induced_abortion.html
And on pregnancy rates in young women:
http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/USTPtrends.pdf