Abortions, by State, 1997

In this chart:

Abortions	= total number of legal abortions
Per births	= number of abortions for every 1000 live births
Per women	= number of abortions for every 1000 women

State	Abortions	Per births	Per women
Alabama	13,063	214	13
Alaska	1,632	164	12
Arizona	11,266	149	11
Arkansas	5,782	159	11
California	275,739	525	38
Colorado	9,183	162	10
Connecticut	13,802	320	19
Delaware	5,138	501	30
Dist. of Columbia	8,771	Note 1	68
Florida	81,692	425	27
Georgia	35,702	302	20
Hawaii	4,520	260	18
Idaho	878	47	3
Illinois	50,147	277	19
Indiana	13,208	158	10
Iowa	10,022	273	16
Kansas	11,249	302	20
Kentucky	7,033	132	8
Louisiana	11,739	178	12
Maine	2,545	186	9
Maryland	9,869	141	8
Massachusetts	28,477	354	20
Michigan	29,528	221	13
Minnesota	14,229	221	13
Mississippi	4,325	104	7
Missouri	10,202	138	9
Montana	2,809	259	15
Nebraska	5,129	220	14
Nevada	6,887	256	19
New Hampshire	2,069	145	8
New Jersey	30,654	271	17
New Mexico	5,382	200	14
New York	140,834	547	35
--City	100,926	849
--State	39,908	288
North Carolina	31,495	294	19
North Dakota	1,226	147	9
Ohio	38,242	252	15
Oklahoma	6,428	133	9
Oregon	14,834	339	21
Pennsylvania	37,135	257	14
Rhode Island	5,478	440	25
South Carolina	9,212	176	11
South Dakota	919	90	6
Tennessee	18,283	245	15
Texas	84,680	254	19
Utah	3,408	79	7
Vermont	1,955	296	15
Virginia	26,089	284	16
Washington	26,932	344	21
West Virginia	2,808	135	7
Wisconsin	13,218	199	11
Wyoming	192	30	2
Total	1,186,039	306	20

Note 1: The CDC statistics do not give the exact number, but simply state that in DC there are more abortions than live births.

Posted 29 Dec 2000.

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