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          1. A few stats on abortion… 95% of women (in a 2015 peer-reviewed study, n=667) reported that having an abortion was the right decision for them over three years of follow-up surveys. journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0128832
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          Most people (58% in 2019) in the US receiving an abortion in the USA are having their first abortion. 60% have previously given birth. pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/06/24/what-the-data-says-about-abortion-in-the-u-s-2/
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        One in three women in the USA have had an abortion by age 45. It is statistically impossible that you don't know a person who has, but very possible they haven't chose to tell you. If no one has ever told you, that might be your fault.
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      51% of US abortion patients were using a form of contraception, with condoms and contraceptive pills leading. Small failure rates for all contraceptive contribute to a large share of abortions. guttmacher.org/news-release/2018/about-half-us-abortion-patients-report-using-contraception-month-they-became
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    58% of women who have an abortion say they would have liked to have had their abortion earlier. 60% of those who put off their abortion cited finances as the cause. (Stat from Guttmacher Institute fact sheet, but a 2015 version no longer online)
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      Opinion polling on abortion is notoriously question-dependent. Mention the pregnant person and support goes up markedly: "Abortion should be legal in almost all cases.” 28% / “Women should have a legal right to safe and accessible abortion in almost all cases.” 39%, same poll.
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        Stay in the latter frame, and you get remarkably supportive preferences for how abortion should be made available n the US: accurately informed, nonjudgmental, unpressured, comfortable, and affordable, all elicit over 65% support. vox.com/2018/2/2/16965240/abortion-decision-statistics-opinions
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          // Note: Girls, nonbinary and intersex people, and trans men sometimes get abortions when pregnant. I've followed the gender terms of the sources I've quoted in this thread.
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