All the right verbiage is there, but you cannot dress up 89% of abortions being performed for contraceptive reasons. I will list the reasons given individually. Feel free to assign terms like "viability," "quality of life," "separation of church and state," and "right to privacy" (penumbrally emanating as it may be) to each of them.
| reason | % of abortions, most important reason |
% of abortions, all reasons |
|---|---|---|
| rape | <0.5 | (1) |
| incest | (<0.5) | |
| mother has health problems | 4 | (12) |
| possible fetal health problems | 3 | (13) |
| unready | 25 | (32) |
| is too immature or young to have child | 7 | (22) |
| woman's parents want her to have abortion | <0.5 | (6) |
| has problems with relationship or wants to avoid single parenthood | 8 | (48) |
| husband or partner wants her to have abortion | <0.5 | (14) |
| has all the children she wanted or all children are grown | 19 | (38) |
| can't afford baby now | 23 | (73) |
| --unmarried | (42) | |
| --student or planning to study | (34) | |
| --can't afford baby and child care | (28) | |
| --can't afford basic life needs | (23) | |
| --unemployed | (22) | |
| --can't leave job to care for baby | (21) | |
| --would have to find new place to live | (19) | |
| --not enough support from husband/partner | (14) | |
| --husband/partner unemployed | (12) | |
| --currently on welfare or public assistance | (8) | |
| concerned about how having baby would change her life | (74) | |
| --would interfere with education plans | 4 | (38) |
| --would interfere with career plans | (38) | |
| --would interfere with care of children or dependents | (32) | |
| doesn't want others to know she had relations or is pregnant | <0.5 | (25) |
| other | 6 |
The first number I quoted was from a 1988 study. I found 2004 numbers which aren't radically different, but more relevant. Note that <8% of the primary reasons are for rape/incest, possible fetal health problems, and maternal health problems combined. If we are charitable and add the entire 6% in the "Other" category, we come to 86% of abortions which are done primarily for convenience (you can dispute my usage of the word "convenience" here but only at risk of distorting your original claim that abortion is the taking of a human life).