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INDIANA INDUCED TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY REPORT
2005

Highlights

• There were 10,686 terminated pregnancies reported in Indiana in 2005.   For additional details, see Table 1a.
  
   
• Of the 10,686 women who had a pregnancy terminated (Indiana occurrences):
  
  
  •  10,224 (95.7%) were Indiana residents (Table 1b).
     
  •  6,898 (64.6%) of the women were white; 3,084 (28.9%) were black; 326 (3.1%) were of other races; and 378 (3.5%) were of unknown race (Table 1a).
     
  •  8,532 (79.8%) of the women were non-Hispanic in origin, and 745 (7.0%) were of Hispanic origin.  Ethnicity was unknown for 1,409 (13.2%) of the women (Table 1a).
     
  •  8,766 (82.0%) of the women who had a pregnancy terminated were not married; 1,687 (15.8%) were married.   Marital status was unknown for 233 (2.2%) of the women (Table 1a).
     
• At the time of termination (Indiana occurrences - Table 1a):
  
  
  •  Less than 1% (41) of the women were under the age of 15;
     
  •  5.1% (550) were 15-17 years of age;
     
  •  10.9% (1,166) were 18-19 years of age;
     
  •  34.4% (3,676) were 20-24 years of age;
     
  •  23.2% (2,476) were 25-29 years of age;
     
  •  14.2% (1,519) were 30-34 years of age;
     
  •  7.9% (844) were 35-39 years of age;
     
  •  2.8% (297) were 40 years of age or older; and
     
  •  Age was unknown for 1.1% (117).
     
• In 2005, 10,189 (95.3%) of the terminations were performed in clinics; 497 (4.7%) were performed in hospitals (Indiana occurrences).   See Table 11.

This page was updated on June 13, 2007.

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