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Most of Europe also has far more comprehensive sex education and available of birth control than the US, and subsequently far less demand for abortions.

• omonra 13y ago
  White women abortion rate is equivalent to Europe (11 per 1k), Black women abortion rate is 50 (Hispanics as usual are in the middle - 28). Given that sex education & birth control are not distributed by ethnicity, there must be more to it than that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_the_United_States#Statistics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_the_United_States#S...
  • bashinator 13y ago
    That could well be a religions/cultural difference. I would not be surprised if mostly-white parts of the US with poor sex education have higher rates of unplanned births (than Europe), rather than abortions.
    • omonra 13y ago
      I am sure it is a cultural difference - but not wrt abortion but marriage. "In 2011 , 72 percent of all births to black women, 66 percent to American Indian or Alaskan native women, and 53 percent to Hispanic women occurred outside of marriage, compared with 29 percent for white women, and 17 percent for Asian or Pacific Islander women." http://www.childtrends.org/?indicators=births-to-unmarried-women http://www.childtrends.org/?indicators=births-to-unmarried-w... In the US - 83% of abortions are done by unmarried women (http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/2506899.html http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/2506899.html). So it seems that marriage plays a large role here.
      • bashinator 13y ago
        Except that marriage rates in Europe are also far lower.