"Why do you want an abortion?"

Woman:  "I am not ready to be a parent."

Anti-Abortionist:  "But, having a child will enrich your life and parenting comes with practice.  It is a natural reaction by any woman."

Woman:  "I am not ready to be a parent.  Becoming pregnant does not make a parent due to a change in hormones.  I am simply not ready for parenthood.  When I am then and only then will I look forward to the wonderful birth of a desired and planned child.  I refuse the ultrasound and I want to have an abortion now."

How does CDC define abortion? (click title to entry - thank you)

For surveillance purposes, legal abortion is defined as a procedure performed by a licensed physician, or a licensed advanced practice clinician acting under the supervision of a licensed physician, to induce the termination of a pregnancy.

How is the Abortion Surveillance Report used?

We understand the report is used by many in the field of public health. Some have mentioned they use the report to—

• Identify characteristics of women who are at high risk of unintended pregnancy.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of programs for reducing teen pregnancies and unintended pregnancy among women of all ages.
• Calculate pregnancy rates based on the number of pregnancies ending in abortion in conjunction with birth data and fetal loss estimates.
• Monitor changes in clinical practice patterns related to abortion, such as changes in the types of procedures used, and weeks of gestation at the time of abortion.

For example, demographers use information in the report to calculate pregnancy rates, which are combined estimates of births and fetal loss. Managers of public health programs use this data to evaluate the programs' effectiveness to prevent unintended pregnancy. There have historically been other data uses; such as, the calculation of the mortality rate of specific abortion procedures. Surveillance systems such as this one continue to provide data necessary to examine trends in public health.

US anti-abortionist executed (click here)

...Paul Hill, 49, died at 1808 local  time (2208 GMT) in northern Florida, following his conviction for the murder of two people outside an abortion clinic in 1994....