In 2008 there were 43.8 million abortions worldwide. In the United States, abortion is legal with no reason needed and only a few limitations in some states. For every 1,000 females aged 15-44 who got pregnant in Oakland County in 2011, 12 of them got an abortion. In Detroit, for every 1,000 females aged 15-44 who got pregnant in 2011, 37.3 of them got an abortion. In Michigan there were 22,826 abortions in 2011. 5,309 of those abortions took place in detroit. There is no acurrate way to define how many of these were a result of sexual abuse, but many are assumed to be.("Abortion Statistics and Other Data").