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| Teen Abortion Statistics |  In the USA, teen abortions take 19% of all abortions. 17-19 are the average age of those girls receiving abortions. Over 50% of abortions performed yearly are on women under the age of 25.
At the present there are twenty-one states that require parental agreement for a teen abortion while eighteen states that do not. Fourteen states oblige a parental notification before abortion procedure. The notification law requires that parents be notified, but permission of a parent is not needed to proceed with the procedure.
At the moment in the United States abortions are legal. Teen abortion facts disclose that with the help of the teen pregnancy rate has slip down in the United States over the last ten years, the percentages have actually increased.
Teens are at higher risk than grown-up women for post-abortion infections like pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) and endometritis (inflammation of the uterus), which may be provoked either by the extend of an undiagnosed sexually transmitted disease into the uterus during the abortion, or by micro-organisms on the surgical instruments which are put into the uterus.
Teens who undergo abortion are 2 to 4 times more likely to commit suicide than adults who abort. Besides, a history of abortion is likely to be connected with adolescent suicidal thinking.
Teen girls who abort have higher risk to develop psychological problems, and are nearly three times more likely to be admitted to mental health hospitals than teens in general.
Teens risk further injury or death because they are unlikely to inform parents of any physical complications.
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