Teenage Abortion Research Paper

For some people getting pregnant can be the happiest time of their life, a wanted baby, the family you always wanted, but for some people finding out you're pregnant can be unwanted and down right scary. As adults, for most of us, after the shock wears off, we start planning and come to terms that we are going to have a baby. Teenagers on the other hand are very different. They have different priorities and they don't have the emotional stability to make educated life decisions and this has become a problem since teenagers are engaging in sexual activity younger and younger.

According to choicepregnancy.org, 7 out of 10 teenages have had sex by the age of 19 years. Approximately 1 million teenagers in America become pregnant each year.
According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), african american women account for 35% of all teenage abortions and white women account for 37%. So what do they have in common? The CDC believes that poverty, lack of education, and religion plays a huge role in teen abortion. Recent studies have shown that teenage girls that come from a strict religious background feel shame and guilt if they have sex or get pregnant out of wedlock and they don't want to be a disappointment to their families, whereas teenagers that come from poverty who get pregnant have abortions because of the financial burden it puts on them and their families. One of the biggest factors is education. Most teenagers don't have the education to know their options or to understand the consequences of their decisions. That is why places like Planned Parenthood and ProLifeArossAmerica.org try to give pregnant teens other options beside abortions. It is estimated that 1 to 2 million couples are trying to adopt. So why aren't these teens choosing adoption over abortion? These websites and institutions are trying to educate teenagers on safe sex and to help them realize that abortion is not the only