TABLE F3.  REPORTED INDUCED TERMINATIONS OF PREGNANCY
AND PERCENTAGE DISTRIBUTION,
BY MEDICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND RACE
PROCEDURES PERFORMED IN MISSISSIPPI, 1995

                                                                             
                                       NUMBER                   PERCENT      
                                             NON-  UNK.                  NON-
MEDICAL CHARACTERISTICS       TOTAL  WHITE  WHITE  RACE   TOTAL  WHITE  WHITE

TOTAL                         3,563  1,288  2,274     1   100.0  100.0  100.0

COMPLETED WEEKS OF                                                           
GESTATION*                                                                   
  UNDER 9                     1,344    512    832     0    37.7   39.8   36.6
  9, 10                       1,180    430    749     1    33.1   33.4   32.9
  11, 12                        623    214    409     0    17.5   16.6   18.0
  13-15                         329     94    235     0     9.2    7.3   10.3
  16-20                          23      7     16     0     0.6    0.5    0.7
  21 OR MORE                     16     10      6     0     0.4    0.8    0.3
  UNKNOWN                        48     21     27     0     1.3    1.6    1.2

PRIMARY PROCEDURE                                                            
  SUCTION CURRETTAGE          2,661    968  1,693     0    74.7   75.2   74.4
  SHARP CURRETTAGE                1      0      1     0       *      -      *
  INTRA-UTERINE SALINE                                                       
    INSTILLATION                847    297    549     1    23.8   23.0   24.1
  HYSTEROTOMY                    30     14     16     0     0.8    1.1    0.7
  OTHER                           4      0      4     0     0.1      -    0.2
  UNKNOWN                        20      9     11     0     0.6    0.7    0.5

COMPLICATIONS                                                                
  NO KNOWN COMPLICATIONS      3,555  1,285  2,269     1    99.8   99.8   99.8
  SOME COMPLICATIONS              6      2      4     0     0.2    0.2    0.2
    HEMORRHAGE                    2#     1#     1#    0       *    0.1      *
    UTERINE PERFORATION           1#     0      1#    0       *      -      *
    CERVICAL LACERATION           2#     1#     1     0       *    0.1      *
    RETAINED PRODUCTS             1      1      0     0       *    0.1      -
    OTHER                         2      0      2     0       *      -    0.1
  UNKNOWN                         2      1      1     0       *    0.1      *

 * CALCULATED BY SUBTRACTING DATE OF LAST NORMAL MENSTRUAL PERIOD PRIOR TO   
   TERMINATION FROM DATE OF TERMINATION.                                     

** LESS THAN 0.06 PERCENT.                                                   

 # ONE PATIENT HAD BOTH HEMORRHAGE AND UTERINE PERFORATION; ONE PATIENT HAD  
   BOTH HEMORRHAGE AND CERVICAL LACERATION.