The document discusses options for preventing unwanted pregnancy and facts about abortion rates in the United States. It suggests using contraception and considering adoption if pregnancy occurs. Statistics show most abortions are obtained by unmarried women in their 20s who have not had previous abortions. Over half of women getting abortions are younger than 25.

1. Civics Solutions

2. Weigh Your Options
• Use condoms
• Think be for you act
• Consider the What if…..
• Think about the things that can happen in
your future pregnancy

3. Possible Solutions
• Offer free condoms
• Make giving up the baby for adoption easier
• Stop having unprotected sex if you don’t want
to have a baby
• Take birth control

4. Facts
• In 2010, unmarried women accounted for 85% of all abortions (CDC).
• Women living with a partner to whom they are not married account for 25% of abortions
but only about 10% of women in the population (NAF).
• In 2010, women who had not aborted in the past accounted for 55.6% of all abortions;
women with one or two prior abortions accounted for 36.7%, and women with three or
more prior abortions accounted for 7.7% (CDC).
• Among women who obtained abortions in 2010, 40.3% had no prior live births; 45.9% had
one or two prior live births, and 13.8% had three or more prior live births (CDC).
• Women between the ages of 20-24 obtained 32.9% of all abortions in 2010; women
between 25-29 obtained 24.5% (CDC).
• Women in their 20's have the highest abortion rates. In 2010, women aged 20-24 had 27.4
abortions for every one thousand 20-24 year-old women. Women aged 25-29 had 20.4
abortions for every one thousand 25-29 year-old women (CDC).
• 51% of U.S. women obtaining abortions are younger than 25; women aged 20-24 obtain
33% of all U.S. abortions, and teenagers obtain 18% (AGI).
• In 2010, adolescents under 15 years obtained .05% of all abortions, but had the highest
abortion ratio, 851 abortions for every 1,000 live births (CDC).