In 1890, Southern states began to adopt explicit literacy tests to disenfranchise voters. This had a large differential racial impact, since 40-60% of blacks were illiterate, compared to 8-18% of whites. Poor, illiterate whites opposed the tests, realizing that they too would be disenfranchised.
We use the figure of $75 million a year, based on an average cost of $800 per abortion for 93,750 abortions. In 2009, the Canadian Institute for Health Information reported 93,755 abortions performed in Canada on Canadian women (the 2010 figure is 64,641, but that excludes Quebec).axpayers pay the full cost of all hospital and clinic abortions. There are five private abortion clinics in B.C and eighteen hospitals that provide abortion services. Manitoba. There were 4,150 abortions reported in Manitoba in 2010, according to the Canadian Institute for Health Information.
In 2005, the average cost of a nonhospital abortion with local anesthesia at 10 weeks of gestation was $413. The Women's Medical Center estimates that a 2nd trimester abortion costs up to $3000 (with the price increasing the further along the pregnancy goes).bortion is a lucrative business. The Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI), the research arm of Planned Parenthood, estimates that there were 1.21 million abortions performed in the U.S. in the year 2005. Of the 1.21 million annual abortions, approximately 88% (1.06 million) are performed during the first trimester.