Primary nationwide abortion statistics for the united states are available from two sources—privately from the guttmacher institute (AGI) and publicly from the centers for disease control (CDC).Cognitive factors in learning guttmacher’s numbers, published every three years, come from direct surveys of all known and suspected abortion providers in the united states.Cognitive factors in learning the CDC numbers, published annually, are derived from actual counts of every abortion reported to state health departments. Unfortunately, california, maryland, and new hampshire do not publicly report abortion totals.Cognitive factors in learning as such, guttmacher’s abortion numbers are more complete, but they are approximations. Since only 58% of queried providers responded to guttmacher’s latest survey, abortion totals were estimated for the remaining 42%.Cognitive factors in learning these estimates utilized in-state health department data and “service patterns of other abortion-providing facilities in the community.” whereas the CDC numbers may be too low, guttmacher’s numbers may be too high.Cognitive factors in learning the information on this page has been gleaned from both sources to provide an overview of the frequency and demography of abortion. Additional secondary statistics have been taken from the national abortion federation's (NAF) 2009 teaching text on abortion, management of unintended and abnormal pregnancy: comprehensive abortion care.Cognitive factors in learning

• according to the guttmacher institute, an estimated 926,240 abortions took place in the united states in 2014—down from 1.06 million in 2011, 1.21 million abortions in 2008, 1.2 million in 2005, 1.29 million in 2002, 1.31 million in 2000 and 1.36 million in 1996.Cognitive factors in learning from 1973 through 2011, nearly 53 million legal abortions occurred in the U.S (AGI).

*though the UN lists china's official abortion rate at 19.2, china's actual abortion rate is likely much higher.Cognitive factors in learning according to china's 2010 census, there were approximately 310 million women of reproductive age in the country. An estimated 13-23 million abortions happen annually in china, resulting in an adjusted abortion rate of 41.9-74.2.Cognitive factors in learning the abortion rate is the number of abortions per 1,000 women aged 15-44.

*gestational weeks are measured from the first day of the woman's last menstruation and not from the day of conception.Cognitive factors in learning though it does not provide an accurate fetal age (which is roughly 2 weeks less than the gestational age), it is the simplest way for an OB/GYN to age a pregnancy since the day of conception is often not known.Cognitive factors in learning hence, if an abortion occurs at 8 weeks gestation, it is actually aborting a 6 week embryo. The images on our prenatal development and abortion pictures pages are more precisely captioned with fetal ages in accordance with standard teaching texts on prenatal development.Cognitive factors in learning

• in 2011, 42% of providers offered very early abortions (during the first four weeks’ gestation) and 95% offered abortion at eight weeks. Sixty-four percent of providers offer at least some second-trimester abortion services (13 weeks or later), and 20% offer abortion after 20 weeks.Cognitive factors in learning eleven percent of all abortion providers offered abortions past 24 weeks (AGI).

• 39 states currently enforce parental consent or notification laws for minors seeking an abortion: AL, AK, AR, AZ, CO, DE, FL, GA, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, OH, OK, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, WI, WV, and WY.Cognitive factors in learning the supreme court ruled that minors must have the alternative of seeking a court order authorizing the procedure (AGI).