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, 1.21 million abortions were performed, down from 1.31 million in 2000. More than 45 million legal abortions were performed from 1973 through 2005. Each year, about 2% of women aged 15-44 have an abortion; 47% of them have had at least one previous abortion.At least half of all American women will face an unintended pregnancy by age 45 and, at current rates; about one-third will have had an abortion. Over 88% of abortions occur in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.Over half of all abortions in the U.S. occur within the first 8 weeks of pregnancy. 6.7% occur between 13 and 15 weeks, 3.5% occur between 16 and 20 weeks, and 1.1% of abortions occur at 21 weeks or greater.ver 88% of abortions occur in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. Over half of all abortions in the U.S. occur within the first 8 weeks of pregnancy. 6.7% occur between 13 and 15 weeks, 3.5% occur between 16 and 20 weeks, and 1.1% of abortions occur at 21 weeks or greater.