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Ohio Abortion Report 2019

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Background
The 2019 Annual Abortion Report presents information derived from both the “Confidential Abortion Reports” and “Post-Abortion Care Reports for Complications” in Ohio; reporting forms are included as Appendices I and II. Readers should note that abortion statistics in this report are limited to terminations occurring in Ohio; they do not include Ohio residents who obtained abortions outside the state.

Characteristics of Induced Abortions Reported in Ohio, 2019
Induced abortion statistics have been prepared in Ohio since 1976. Several trend comparisons in the 2019 Annual Abortion Report date back to 2004. A total of 20,102 induced pregnancy terminations were reported in Ohio for 2019; including 18,913 obtained by Ohio resident women (94.1%). This represents a 2% decrease in induced pregnancy terminations from 2018 to 2019. Overall, since 2001 there has been a steady decline in terminations. When examined from 2001 to 2019, the annual decline averaged approximately 960 per year (Figure 1).

Approximately one in nine women who obtained abortions in 2019 were under 20 years of age; with another 29% between the ages of 20-24 years of age (Table 2). While the age distribution of women obtaining abortions has remained relatively unchanged since 2002, the age-specific abortion rates for women under age 25 have steadily decreased (Figure 5). Approximately 86% of women with known marital status who obtained abortions were never married, divorced, or widowed (Table 2). Approximately 14% of women who obtained abortions and whose marital status was known were married or separated (Table 2). Approximately 46% of resident women who obtained abortions and for whom race was reported were White; 46% were African American; 4% were Asian/Pacific Islander; and 4% reported more than one race (Figure 2). Six percent of women with known ethnicity who obtained abortions were of Hispanic origin (Table 1).

The 2019 Ohio abortion rate was 8.5 per 1,000 resident women ages 15-44 years old; slightly decreased from the rate in 2018 (Figure 4). The 2019 Ohio resident abortion ratio was 141 abortions per 1,000 live births; slightly decreased from the ratio in 2018 (Figure 4).

More than half of all induced abortions involved pregnancies of less than nine weeks (61%); with approximately 26% involving pregnancies of nine to twelve weeks (Table 2). The proportion involving abortions of less than nine weeks increased from 49% in 1997 while the proportion between nine and twelve weeks declined from 35% to 26% (Figure 7). There were 356 abortions in 2019 involving pregnancies of nineteen or more completed weeks of gestation (Table 2). That represents a decrease from the 488 reported in 2018. The abortion reporting form requests methods used to determine gestational age: ultrasound was used in 93% of cases (Table 8b). The vast majority of reported abortions were obtained in six major metropolitan areas of Ohio (Table 6).

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