Race-specific patterns of abortion use by American teenagers.
- 1 August 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Public Health Association in American Journal of Public Health
- Vol. 72 (8) , 809-814
- https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.72.8.809
Abstract
Between 1972 and 1978, as legal abortion became more widely available nationally, abortion rates (abortions per 1,000 women) and ratios (abortions per 1,000 live births) increased for all American teenagers; from 1972 to 1975, the rates and ratios for teenagers for Black and other races increased faster than those for White teenagers. For all seven years, abortion rates were higher for teenagers of Black and other races than for white teenagers. This reflected both higher proportions of sexually active teenagers of Black and other races and a greater risk of pregnancy in these teenagers compared with White teenagers. Race-specific differences in legal abortion ratios narrowed during the seven-year interval, as did differences in alternative outcomes of teenage premarital pregnancies (term births, illegal abortions).This publication has 31 references indexed in Scilit:
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