Posted on 10/12/2007 9:06:25 AM PDT by Froufrou
One in five pregnancies worldwide and one in three pregnancies in Europe ends in abortion, according to a new study published in a special female-focused issue of the Lancet.
The study also found that, on average, 90 percent of women worldwide will have an abortion before the age of 45, based on 2003 data. However, many women will have had multiple abortions and many none at all to come to this average.
Although the statistics may seem startling, worldwide rates of induced abortion actually fell 17 percent from 46 million to 42 million between 1995 and 2003.
Unsafe abortion has not declined worldwide, however, and is concentrated in developing countries, according to a study conducted by Dr. Gilda Sedgh of the Guttmacher Institute in New York, Dr. Iqbal Shah of World Health Organization in Switzerland and colleagues.
The researchers calculated worldwide and regional incidences of safe abortions using reports from national reporting systems, nationally representative surveys and published studies. Figures for unsafe abortion were estimated from hospital data, survey and other published studies.
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Incredible!
This is probably the only topic I could go into an apopletic fit of rage over. All those poor children never even had a damn chance. How many scientists, scholars, priests, prophets, artists and writers have we unknowingly lost?
Well, which is it?
1 in 5
or
9 in 10?
The Lancet is about like the JAMA so I’m leaning toward the study having some accuracy to it.
And I read somewhere that something like 91% of them are due to non life threatening reasons....can’t afford, don’t wan’t, too young...etc.
Both can be true.
And I read somewhere that something like 91% of them are due to non life threatening reasons....can’t afford, don’t wan’t, too young...etc.
“90 percent of women worldwide will have an abortion before the age of 45”
I don’t believe that statistic.
What is the most shameless is that it is legal! How can any ‘law’ betray a woman and her child like this? Moral law should not be circumvented.
As jdm points out, there’s fuzzy math here. I think they are inferring that 10% of the women who abort are over age 45!
1 in 3 pregnancies ending in abortion in Europe? I thought they were supposed to have lower rates than ours.
Very sad.
90% of women by the time they are 45 is not even statistics. “If each woman had just one aborion...” It’s just damn lies.
Mrs VS
In what way are the statistics they state “Fuzzy?”
I wonder if they’ve counted multiple abortions by the same woman in this.....doesn’t seem like that number is right to me, either.
Is FR slow....or is it MY computer
See #4. I did not mean ‘fuzzy’ as in ‘warm and!’
The key is in the second sentence. Then the way I see it there are so many outliers ("serial aborters") that this 90% figure is virtually useless. I would rather they came up with a figure to answer the questions: "What percentage of women will never have an abortion in their lifetime?", "What percentage of women will have 1 and only 1 abortion in their lifetime?", "2 and only 2" and etc. That would be more useful.
I have always been against abortion. I have also always been pro-choice. Against abortion comes first, pro-choice second. That pisses a lot of Freepers off and some don’t understand that stance but that’s the way it is.
I also fully support anything to prevent abortions from happening except making them blanketly illegal across the board. For example I fully support requiring an ultrasound be performed and the mother SEE the baby before an abortion (I thought that was the best idea ever).
That being said, this article didn’t put me into a rage, but it did give me great sadness.
Later in the article I find that abortion rates were about the same whether they were legal or illegal. This filled me with even greater sadness because obviously the legality isn’t what makes a mother choose to abort her pregnancy.
It’s how children anymore are seen as a burden instead of a blessing. How schools, media, and yes even sometimes religious organization don’t consider a child a child until it is actually born (until then it’s called a fetus).
I want to say more but I can’t form the words right now unfortunately.
Your questions would make too many feel uncomfortable, though.
Can’t have anyone feeling uncomfortable.
Remember, they are victims, now.
/sarc
I find this extremely unlikely.
pro-choice second
Uh-huh, what choice did the kid have?
In one sense God is ‘pro-Choice’. He gave us free will. He could have made everyone think and act only in ways pleasing to him ... but he didn’t.
Is that what you mean?
Is that what you mean?
Yes Lorianne that is exactly what I mean.
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