Correlation between rates of rape and abortion.
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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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