Monday, March 13, 2006

Rape and Incest

Interesting stats on rape and abortion:
  • The national rape-related pregnancy rate is 5.0% per rape among victims of reproductive age.
  • Among adult women, an estimated 32,101 pregnancies result from rape each year.
  • Among the cases of rape-related pregnancy, the majority occurred among adolescents and resulted from assault by a known, often related perpetrator.
  • Only 11.7% of these victims received immediate medical attention after the assault, and 47.1% received no medical attention related to the rape.
  • A total 32.4% of these victims did not discover they were pregnant until they had already entered the second trimester; 32.2% opted to keep the infant whereas 50% underwent abortion and 5.9% placed the infant for adoption; an additional 11.8% had spontaneous abortion.
(h/t)
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