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INDIANA INDUCED TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY REPORT
2006

Highlights

• There were 10,575 terminated pregnancies reported in Indiana in 2006.   For additional details, see Table 1a.
  
   
• Of the 10,575 women who had a pregnancy terminated (Indiana occurrences):
  
  
  •  10,092 (95.4%) were Indiana residents (Table 1b).
     
  •  6,777 (64.1%) of the women were white; 3,036 (28.7%) were black; 313 (3.0%) were of other races; and 449 (4.2%) were of unknown race (Table 1a).
     
  •  8,362 (79.1%) of the women were non-Hispanic in origin, and 796 (7.5%) were of Hispanic origin.  Ethnicity was unknown for 1,417 (13.4%) of the women (Table 1a).
     
  •  8,634 (81.6%) of the women who had a pregnancy terminated were not married; 1,702 (16.1%) were married. Marital status was unknown for 239 (2.3%) of the women (Table 1a).
     
• At the time of termination (Indiana occurrences - Table 1a):
  
  
  •  Less than 1% (62) of the women were under the age of 15;
     
  •  5.0% (530) were 15-17 years of age;
     
  •  10.4% (1,103) were 18-19 years of age;
     
  •  33.9% (3,582) were 20-24 years of age;
     
  •  23.1% (2,444) were 25-29 years of age;
     
  •  13.9% (1,472) were 30-34 years of age;
     
  •  8.8% (931) were 35-39 years of age;
     
  •  2.9% (305) were 40 years of age or older; and
     
  •  Age was unknown for 1.4% (146).
     
• In 2006, 10,093 (95.4%) of the terminations were performed in clinics; 482 (4.6%) were performed in hospitals (Indiana occurrences).   See Table 11.

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