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INDIANA INDUCED TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY REPORT
2002

Highlights

• There were 10,937 terminated pregnancies reported in Indiana in 2002.   For additional details, see Table 1a.
  
   
• Of the 10,937 women who had a pregnancy terminated (Indiana occurrences):
  
  
  •  10,398 (95.1%) were Indiana residents (Table 1b).
     
  •  6,971 (63.7%) of the women were white, 2,954 (27.0%) were black, 236 (2.2%) were of other races, and 776 (7.1%) were of unknown race (Table 1a).
     
  •  8,646 (79.1%) of the women were non-Hispanic in origin, 651 (6.0%) were of Hispanic origin.  Ethnicity was unknown for 1,640 (15.0%) of the women (Table 1a).
     
  •  8,057 (73.7%) of the women who had a pregnancy terminated were not married, and 1,538 (14.1%) were married.   Marital status was unknown for 1,342 (12.3%) of the women (Table 1a).
     
• At the time of termination (Indiana occurrences):
  
  
  •  Less than 1% (65) of the women were under the age of 15;
     
  •  5.9% (641) were 15-17 years of age;
     
  •  10.9% (1,189) were 18-19 years of age;
     
  •  35.5% (3,881) were 20-24 years of age;
     
  •  22.7% (2,487) were 25-29 years of age;
     
  •  13.5% (1,478) were 30-34 years of age;
     
  •  7.3% (793) were 35-39 years of age;
     
  •  2.6% (284) were age 40 or more; and
     
  •  Age was unknown for 1.1% (119).
     
• In 2002, 10,381 (94.9%) of the terminations were performed in clinics; 555 (5.1%) were performed in hospitals (Indiana occurrences).   See Table 11.

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