MICHIGAN ABORTION DATA FOR 2008

• The number of abortions performed in Michigan in 2008 rose by 1,287 (5.2% )
  from 2007, to a total of 25,970, after falling to an all-time low figure of
  24,683 in 2007. Abortions performed on Michigan residents rose by 1,158 (4.8%)
  while non-Michigan resident abortions increased by 129 (19.0%).

• The 5.2% increase for 2008 comes after a one-year drop in 2007 of 3.7%.
  Since the peak year of 1987, abortions have fallen 47.4%.
• Abortions for minors (under age 18) increased by 7.4%, 125 additional
  abortions, in 2008. The 1,806 minor abortions, when taking into account the
  general increase in population of girls age10 to 17, means the rate of abortions
  among minors has fallen 55.4% since 1990.
• Beginning in 2003, abortion data became available by race and immediately
  confirmed the abortion crisis in the African-American community. The data for
  2008 are by far the worst ever. Black women accounted for 45.4% of all abortions
  despite comprising only 16.5% of women age 15-44. Black women abort their
  children at a rate three to five times higher than women of other races.
  Demographically speaking, these data are catastrophic.
• The abortion rate among younger women (under 25) over the long term has been
  trending downward, while the rates for women over 25 have been either stable or
  trending upward. “The face of abortion” is definitely aging in Michigan.
• The repeat abortion rate was 48.0%, with 25.4% of women having a second
  abortion, and 22.6% having their third or more.
• Setting a new high mark in 2008, unmarried women were 89.0% of the abortion
  consumers in 2008.
• The number of Michigan women aborting in 2008 who had previously given birth
  was 61.0%, up from the 2007 level of 59.5%, but still below the 2002 all-time
  high of 63.3%. Single mothers had a majority of all abortions, 51.5%; single
  women with no children had 37.5%. The overwhelming number of married women who
  abort have had one or more previous births, 86.8% (9.5% of all abortions).
• In the years immediately following FDA approval of RU-486 in September 2000,
  medically induced abortions performed through 8 weeks of pregnancy rose
  consistently. In 2001, only 2.9% of abortions were medically induced. The
  percentage peaked at 9.9% in 2005 and decreased to 9.1% in 2006. There was a
  slight uptick to 9.3% in 2007, and actually dropped in 2008 to 8.6% of total
  abortions, despite the general increase in abortions.

EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS IN OUR OFFICE YOU MAY TAKE/BORROW

1.  Our office currently has 3 educational DVDs on fetal develpment in the womb.  You do not have to be a KRTL Member to sign these DVDs out and may borrow them for up to 2 weeks at a time.

2.  We also have a flat screen monitor and DVD player that you may also sign out to borrow if you would like to show some of our educational DVDs at your church, an information booth, fair or other event.  Please Note:  You must be a current KRTL Member to borrow these.

3.  There is a small library of books that KRTL has collected over the past 40 years on the subject of abortion, euthanasia, stem cell research, the sanctity of life, etc.  Please feel free to come and browse our selection!  You do not have to be a KRTL Member to borrow a book!  Sign them out for up to 1 month at a time.

4.  We provide a large selection of educational brochures, pamphlets and other informational materials you may take to read for yourself and/or share with others.

5.  We have 2 collections of actual size fetal development models which you can sign out to use as an educational display for up to 2 weeks at a time.  Please Note:  You must be a current KRTL Member to borrow these.

EDUCATIONAL SHORT VIDEOS

Sanctity of Human Life Short Video Based on Psalm 139:13-16

How Pregnancy Care Centers Save Lives

Testimony of a Woman Who Had an Abortion

A Man's Perspective on the Effect of Abortion