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INDIANA INDUCED TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY REPORT
2004

Highlights

• There were 10,514 terminated pregnancies reported in Indiana in 2004.   For additional details, see Table 1a.
  
   
• Of the 10,514 women who had a pregnancy terminated (Indiana occurrences):
  
  
  •  10,036 (95.5%) were Indiana residents (Table 1b).
     
  •  6,628 (63.0%) of the women were white; 2,945 (28.0%) were black; 375 (3.6%) were of other races; and 566 (5.4%) were of unknown race (Table 1a).
     
  •  7,851 (74.7%) of the women were non-Hispanic in origin, and 738 (7.0%) were of Hispanic origin.  Ethnicity was unknown for 1,925 (18.3%) of the women (Table 1a).
     
  •  8,661 (82.4%) of the women who had a pregnancy terminated were not married; 1,663 (15.8%) were married.   Marital status was unknown for 190 (1.8%) of the women (Table 1a).
     
• At the time of termination (Indiana occurrences - Table 1a):
  
  
  •  Less than 1% (48) of the women were under the age of 15;
     
  •  4.9% (514) were 15-17 years of age;
     
  •  10.6% (1,112) were 18-19 years of age;
     
  •  35.1% (3,695) were 20-24 years of age;
     
  •  22.6% (2,375) were 25-29 years of age;
     
  •  13.9% (1,460) were 30-34 years of age;
     
  •  7.7% (806) were 35-39 years of age;
     
  •  3.1% (320) were 40 years of age or older; and
     
  •  Age was unknown for 1.8% (184).
     
• In 2004, 10,030 (95.4%) of the terminations were performed in clinics; 484 (4.6%) were performed in hospitals (Indiana occurrences).   See Table 11.

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