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- Title
Abortion Patients in 1994-1995: Characteristics and Contraceptive Use.
- Authors
Henshaw, Stanley K.; Kost, Kathryn
- Abstract
The article presents the results of a national survey of abortion patients in the United States for the years 1994 and 1995. It also describes the methods used for data collection. Representativeness of the survey includes abortion indices, factors affecting abortion decision, religion and economic status of the abortion patients. The risk of unintended pregnancy leading to abortion varies widely among demographic subgroups. The factors associated with high risk are relatively young age (18-24), being separated or divorced, cohabiting while unmarried, being Hispanic or of a minority race, having a low income, being covered by Medicaid and having had four or more births. Factors that are associated with low abortion rates include being a born-again or Evangelical Christian, being aged 35 or older, having high income, living in a nonmetropolitan county, being married and identifying with a religion other than Catholicism. Results show that women who live with a partner outside marriage or have no religious identification are 3.5-4.0 times as likely as women in the general population to have an abortion.
- Subjects
UNITED States; HEALTH surveys; ABORTION applicants; PREGNANT women; PATIENT participation; RELIGION; ABORTION
- Publication
Family Planning Perspectives, 1996, Vol 28, Issue 4, p140
- ISSN
0014-7354
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2136189