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INDIANA INDUCED TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY REPORT
2009

Highlights

• There were 10,557 terminated pregnancies reported in Indiana in 2009.   For additional details, see Table 1a.
  
   
• Of the 10,557 women who had a pregnancy terminated (Indiana occurrences):
  
  
  •  10,081 (95.5%) were Indiana residents (Table 1b).
     
  •  6,657 (63.1%) of the women were white; 3,155 (29.9%) were black; 484 (4.6%) were of other races; and 261 (2.5%) were of unknown race (Table 1a).
     
  •  9,416 (89.2%) of the women were non-Hispanic in origin, and 715 (6.8%) were of Hispanic origin.  Ethnicity was unknown for 426 (4.0%) of the women (Table 1a).
     
  •  8,844 (83.8%) of the women who had a pregnancy terminated were not married; 1,676 (15.9%) were married.   Marital status was unknown for 37 (0.4%) of the women (Table 1a).
     
• At the time of termination (Indiana occurrences - Table 1a):
  
  
  •  Less than 1% (61) of the women were under the age of 15;
     
  •  5.4% (567) were 15-17 years of age;
     
  •  10.5% (1,104) were 18-19 years of age;
     
  •  33.9% (3,575) were 20-24 years of age;
     
  •  23.8% (2,509) were 25-29 years of age;
     
  •  14.5% (1,527) were 30-34 years of age;
     
  •  8.7% (918) were 35-39 years of age;
     
  •  2.7% (287) were 40 years of age or older; and
     
  •  Age was unknown for 0.1% (9).
     
• In 2009, 10,234 (96.9%) of the terminations were performed in clinics; 323 (3.1%) were performed in hospitals (Indiana occurrences).   See Table 11.

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