{"id":171214,"date":"2017-09-25T15:10:42","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T19:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=171214"},"modified":"2017-09-22T00:46:30","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T04:46:30","slug":"surprise-guttmacher-survey-shows-women-get-taxpayer-funded-abortions-may-abortions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/surprise-guttmacher-survey-shows-women-get-taxpayer-funded-abortions-may-abortions\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprise! Guttmacher survey shows that women who get taxpayer-funded abortions may have more abortions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A survey conducted by the Guttmacher Institute, Planned Parenthood<\/a>‘s former “special affiliate<\/a>,” reveals that taxpayer-funded abortions were a factor for women who had at least one prior abortion. It also revealed that the majority of those women had used contraception at the time of conception. In addition, Guttmacher, which is funded<\/a> in part by taxpayers, found that Black women had a higher rate of prior abortions.<\/p>\n

The survey,<\/a> entitled, “Which Abortion Patients Have Had a Prior Abortion? Findings from the 2014 U.S. Abortion Patient Survey,” was described by the authors as “limited research on the characteristics of individuals who have terminated two or more pregnancies.” The report,\u00a0published<\/a> by the Journal of Women’s Health in late August, asked women how many prior abortions they had and found that slightly less than half of abortion patients (44.8%) had prior abortions:<\/p>\n

Age was most strongly associated with this outcome, and patients aged 30 and older had more than two times the odds of having had a prior abortion compared with those aged 20\u201324.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Guttmacher Institute researchers\u00a0Rachel Jones,\u00a0Jenna Jerman, and\u00a0Meghan Ingerick say they compared demographic characteristics such as age, number of prior births, race\/ethnicity, and education as well as contraception use.<\/p>\n

In addition to Guttmacher’s close associations<\/a> with Planned Parenthood past and present, the study’s authors, all on staff at Guttmacher, are not unbiased. For example,\u00a0lead Guttmacher researcher for this study, Rachel K. Jones, also serves on the board of directors<\/a> of the National Abortion Federation, according to her Guttmacher\u00a0bio<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Race<\/strong><\/p>\n

Authors of the survey discovered that several factors increased the likelihood of prior abortions, including, (in their words<\/a>) “being black,” “having one or more children,” and “relying on insurance or financial assistance to pay for the procedure.”<\/p>\n

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Guttmacher Prior Abortion Survey<\/p><\/div>\n

The report found that Black women had a higher rate of prior abortions: “Slightly more than half of Black abortion patients had a prior abortion (54%), higher than any other racial and ethnic group.”<\/p>\n