title: Correlation between rates of rape and abortion.
abstract: 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.
authors.forename: P R
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: Saucer
mesh_terms: D000029:Abortion, Legal / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D011247:Pregnancy; D011275:Pregnancy, Unwanted / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011902:Rape / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology