Curiosity killed the Cat

I chose the following questions to find answers for:

1) What percentage of infants are never born ?

This is every year-

• 1,995,840 pregnancy losses
• 600,000 women experience pregnancy loss through miscarriage
• 1,200,000 women experience pregnancy loss through termination
• 64,000 women experience pregnancy loss through ectopic pregnancy
• 6,000 women experience pregnancy loss through molar pregnancies
• 26,000 women experience pregnancy loss through stillbirth

http://www.americanpregnancy.org/main/statistics.html

2) What are reasons for women to get abortions? What are those statistics?

• Wants to postpone childbearing: 25.5%
• Wants no (more) children: 7.9%
• Cannot afford a baby: 21.3%
• Having a child will disrupt education or job: 10.8%
• Has relationship problem or partner does not want pregnancy: 14.1%
• Too young; parent(s) or other(s) object to pregnancy: 12.2%
• Risk to maternal health: 2.8%
• Risk to fetal health: 3.3%
• Other: 2.1%

http://www.abortiontv.com/Misc/AbortionStatistics.htm#United%20States

3) What is the percentage of teenage pregnancy?

• 468,988 babies are born to teenage mothers each year

http://www.americanpregnancy.org/main/statistics.html

4) How has this percentage changed in the last few years?

• The teenage pregnancy rate among those who ever had intercourse declined 28% between
  1990 and 2002.
• The teenage birthrate in 2002 was 30% lower than the peak rate of 61.8 births per 1,000
  women, reached in 1991.
• Between 1988 and 2000, teenage pregnancy rates declined in every state and in the
  District of Columbia.

http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/2006/09/12/USTPstats.pdf

5) What percentage of teens have abortions?

• Nearly 4 in 10 teen pregnancies end in abortion

http://www.bethany.org/A55798/bethanyWWW.nsf/0/4945A7A54204F6EE85256D1A004E526A

6) What is the percentage of women who die during child labor?

• Every year in the U.S more than 1000
  women die during pregnancy or shortly
  after.

http://health.state.ga.us/pdfs/epi/mch/CSTEPoster2005.pdf

7) How does the abortion process work?

• One procedure used is Dialation and vacuum curettage (suction). It is when they suck the baby out of you. There is also mini-vac aspiration which is done with a hand held syringe to take out what's in the uterine. This procedure is done up to 12 weeks. Surgery used for 12-14 weeks pregnancies is started by inserting a laminaria (dialator). This is used for longer pregnancies because the longer the pregnancy, the more the doctors need to dialate. After enough time has passed the laminaria will be removed and they will use the vacuum curretage to complete the abortion. For a non-surgical abortion there are qualifications. In order to get RU-486 = Mifeprex/Mifepristone (Abortion Pill), you need to be less than 9 weeks from your last period and less than 7 weeks from the time of conception. This pill works by blocking the hormone progesterone, which is needed for a body to keep an early pregnancy. As a result it causes the early pregnancy to detach from the uterine wall. Also used with this is Misoprostol which helps the uterus to contract and the cervix to dialate.

http://safestabortion.com/depoprovera.html

8) What is the percentage of men that get circumcised?

• 30% of men are circumcised worldwide, 68% of which are believed to be Muslims.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumcision

9) How often does the AWOB change? ex(C-Section, Midwife)

10) What percentage of women opt to have fancy sh-mancy birth test?

• Survey of sexually active women ages 18-44 result in 79% using pregnacy tests as soon as they realize they might be pregnant.

http://www.testaccurately.com/newsroom.html

11) Is aboriton frowned upon in other countries or accepted/tolerated similar to how it is in America?

• 60% of the world's people live in countries where abortion is used with a specific reason or not questioned at all.
• 26% of people live in countries where abortions are prohibited.

http://reproductiverights.org/en/document/world-abortion-laws-2008-factsheet

12) What percentage of C-sections are elective?

• Between 2000 and 2001 C-sections jumped 7%
• One in four babies is now delivered by C-section

http://www.webmd.com/baby/news/20030305/c-sections-necessity-choice-issue

13) What percentage of women squat?

14) What is the average age for women to have kids?

• 25.2 years old is the average age to become pregnat for first time mothers says a survey done in 2005.

http://www.babycenter.com/0_17-surprising-facts-about-birth-in-the-united-states_1372273.bc

15) What is the most common form of birth control?

Sidenote.

I found a website that says statistically childbirth is 9 times more dangerous to go through than abortions. Found that interesting.

http://safestabortion.com/surgical.html

Tuesday is the most popular day for babies to be born.

http://www.babycenter.com/0_17-surprising-facts-about-birth-in-the-united-states_1372273.bc