Correlation between rates of rape and abortion

Saucer, P.R.

Psychological Reports 70(3 Part 1): 786

1992


ISSN/ISBN: 0033-2941
PMID: 1620770
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.1992.70.3.786
Document Number: 575716
To test the argument made by abortion advocates that increases in unwanted pregnancies that are due to rape justify the need for legal abortions, a Pearson correlation was calculated between the forcible rape rates and the legal abortion rates in the USA for 1985. The calculation gave an r of .21, a nonsignificant value.

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