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INDIANA INDUCED TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY REPORT
2007

Highlights

• There were 10,887 terminated pregnancies reported in Indiana in 2007.   For additional details, see Table 1a.
  
   
• Of the 10,887 women who had a pregnancy terminated (Indiana occurrences):
  
  
  •  10,382 (95.4%) were Indiana residents (Table 1b).
     
  •  6,953 (63.9%) of the women were white; 3,173 (29.1%) were black; 306(2.8%) were of other races; and 455 (4.2%) were of unknown race (Table 1a).
     
  •  8,922 (82.0%) of the women were non-Hispanic in origin, and 859 (7.9%) were of Hispanic origin.  Ethnicity was unknown for 1,106 (10.2%) of the women (Table 1a).
     
  •  8,954 (82.2%) of the women who had a pregnancy terminated were not married; 1,799 (16.5%) were married.   Marital status was unknown for 134 (1.2%) of the women (Table 1a).
     
• At the time of termination (Indiana occurrences - Table 1a):
  
  
  •  Less than 1% (52) of the women were under the age of 15;
     
  •  5.2% (568) were 15-17 years of age;
     
  •  11.2% (1,219) were 18-19 years of age;
     
  •  33.0% (3,593) were 20-24 years of age;
     
  •  23.6% (2,574) were 25-29 years of age;
     
  •  14.3% (1,557) were 30-34 years of age;
     
  •  8.5% (926) were 35-39 years of age;
     
  •  2.7% (295) were 40 years of age or older; and
     
  •  Age was unknown for 0.9% (103).
     
• In 2007, 10,489 (96.3%) of the terminations were performed in clinics; 398 (3.7%) were performed in hospitals (Indiana occurrences).   See Table 11.

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