[jdm]

1 in 5 Pregnancies Worldwide Ends in Abortion, Study Says

90 percent of women worldwide will have an abortion before the age of 45

Well, which is it?

1 in 5

or

9 in 10?

[trumandogz]

Both can be true.

[highball]

"1 in 5 Pregnancies Worldwide Ends in Abortion, Study Says

90 percent of women worldwide will have an abortion before the age of 45"

Well, which is it?

1 in 5

or

9 in 10?

It's really confusing, because those are two completely different statistics.

Presume for the moment that both are true (just for the sake of argument). That would mean 9 in 10 women are responsible for 1 in 5 births, which means the remaining 1 in 10 women have a lot of children.

Don't know if I believe that, but it's possible. The women most likely to have abortions are also the least likely to have large families - does it therefore follow that the women least likely to have an abortion are the most likely to have large families?

[madprof98]

They don’t care, as long as it sounds big enough to say, “Hell, everybody does it!”

[mamelukesabre]

There’s more than one pregnancy per woman. Think about it.