2. Facts about unplanned pregnancy
• In 2008, there were 54 unintended
pregnancies for every 1,000 women aged 15–
44. In other words, about 5% of reproductiveage women have an unintended pregnancy
each year
• Unintended pregnancy rates are highest
among poor and low-income women, women
aged 18–24, cohabiting women and minority
women
• At least 37% of pregnancies in every U.S. state
are unintended. In 31 states and the District of
Columbia, more than half of pregnancies are
unintended
• In 2008, 40% of unintended pregnancies
(excluding miscarriages) ended in abortion
and 60% ended in birth. This was a shift
from 2001, when 47% ended in abortion and
53% ended in a birth.
• Compared with higher-income women,
poor and low-income women are less likely
to end an unintended pregnancy by
abortion. Consequently, poor women have
a relatively high unintended birth rate
3. Parenting
• Means; The rearing of a child or children, especially the care, love, and guidance
given by a parent
• To be a parent is very expensive ,because the child or children have many needs
and wants
• Having a decent-paying and steady job is helpful
• There are programs to helps parents in need care for their child or children
• Raising a child on your own is difficult and common ,and possible with the right
mindset
• A bond between a child and parent(s) (adopted or biological) is very unique
• What kind of parent style do you have or want?
6. Adoption
• Means; the action or fact of adopting or being adopted. For example, "she
gave up her children for adoption”.
• Adoption helps
give others the
opportunity to
have a family
• One of the best
choices because of
closed and open
Adoptions
• Closed adoption is the process by where an infant is adopted by another
family, and the record of the biological parent is kept sealed. Biological
parent can have no contact with said infant or child
7. Adoption continued…
• Open adoption is a form of adoption in which the biological and
adoptive families have access to varying degrees of each other's
personal information and have an option of contact
• Adoption helps give back to the community and helps others who
cant have children an/or just want to adopt children in need
8. Abortion
• Means; The deliberate termination of a human pregnancy, most
often performed during the first 28 weeks of pregnancy
• Nearly half of all pregnancies among American women are
unintended, and four in 10 of these end in abortion
• Overall, the abortion rate decreased 8% between 2000 and 2008,
but abortion increased 18% among poor women, while decreasing
28% among higher-income women
• Women have a chance to start over or start a new beginning
• Aborted child would not have to suffer neglecting or poverty
9. Abortion continued…
• It’s in the women rights to decided whether or not the want to
have a child at the time
• Helps the economy control the population growth
• Safer to have an legal abortions
• Abortion clinics are available all over the
United States of America
10. Resources
• Robbinsdale Clinic P.A.
3819 W Broadway Ave, Minneapolis, MN (763)
533-2534
• Ramsey County Community Human Services
160 East Kellogg Blvd. Rm. 7650
St. Paul, MN 55101
• Pro-Choice Resources
250 3rd Ave N #625, Minneapolis, MN
(612) 825-2000
(Abortion assistance fund · reproductive health ·
advocacy)
• Planned Parenthood: St. Paul Health Center
Vandalia
671 Vandalia St, St Paul, MN
(651) 698-2406
• Whole Woman's Health Clinic
825 S 8th St #1018, Minneapolis, Minnesota
(612) 376-7708
• Planned Parenthood: St. Paul Clinic - Rice Street
1700 Rice St, St Paul, MN
(651) 489-1328
• Abortion Accommodations
710 E 24th St # 403, Minneapolis, MN
(612) 870-1334
• New Day Pregnancy Care Center
2756 Lake Shore Ave, Little Canada, MN
(651) 644-3937 ·
• Pregnancy Choices LifeCare Center
15010 Glazier Ave #104, Apple Valley, MN
(952) 997-2229 ·
• For more resources visit
11. “You are free to make your own
choices, but you are not free to
choose the consequences.”
YOU HAVE OPTIONS.
