1 in 5 Pregnancies Worldwide Ends in Abortion, Study Says

FOX ^ | 10/12/07 | Unknown

[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.

[mamelukesabre]

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

[mamelukesabre]

It absolutely makes sense. Think of all the women in the developing world that have 15 kids each and half of them die in childhood. In the western world, women maybe get pregnant on average two or three times each. What these stats are telling us is that the europeans are aborting at a higher rate AND ALSO getting pregnant at a much lower rate. This explains why europeans(the white ones anyway) are going extinct.

[wagglebee]

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[Mrs. Don-o]

"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."
"Yes Lorianne that is exactly what I mean."

This is not accurate, though, because pro-choice doesn't actually mean "endowed with free will."

I'll illustrate what I mean.

God also made us free--- in the sense that we are not puppets or robots --- so that we could choose to commit rape, torture, and armed robbery. But nobody calls themselves "pro-choice" on rape, torture and armed robbery. You don't, do you?

I didn't think so.

In this country, "pro-choice" means "Some human beings are protected by law from being murdered, but we have decided to exclude one class of human beings from the protection of the law, so that they can be attacked with impunity....if you choose."

If it were made legal to kill some other class of human beings --- say you could shoot redheads on sight---- you wouldn't call that pro-choice, would you? I hope you'd call it (at least) anti-redhead.

[goodnesswins]

Thanks....I should have read more closely.

[snugs]

I tend to hold a very similar view to you though of course not exactly the same as the Roe V Wade issue is not relevant in Britain.

We are going to get abortion re-visted during this Parliament and no doubt it will divide many in many parties. I have to admit I am not sure where my MP stands on it but I would assume would like the limit of 24 weeks reduced which IMHO must be reduced seeing as many children and children that are not severely damaged are born and surviving at 22, 23 and 24 weeks. I know younger ones are but I have not heard of any under 21 weeks who have not got many problems.

[snugs]

Have you also heard in China that fertility drugs are available over the counter in many villages to ensure that the one pregnancy that is allowed without severe taxation is either twins or more.

Parents want more than one child but cannot afford the high taxation that results in having one or more. The other sad fact is that mainly it is girls that are aborted and there is a shortage now of marriable women and men are often seen hanging around the streets and villages looking for a partner. Many are risking all to leave China just to find a wife.

Most men want a boy to carry on the family name and traditions and if a scan is provided and it is a girl then it often aborted. This is a case when providing scans has caused more abortions not less. Elsewhere in the world the opposite is true.

A question can someone explain to me the difference between late term abortion and partial birth abortion. I have heard that the practice of partial birth abortion is not allowed in Britain but we do abort up to 24 weeks so is that not one and the same or is there a subtle difference.

[50mm]

Hope you're not eating while you read this.

I believe that abortions in China are mandatory for women who have already had one child.

Partial birth abortion is a specific procedure performed on third trimester babies. The procedure involves rotating the baby in-utero to present feet first. The baby is then pulled out by the feet until the head is just visible, but still in the woman. The baby at this point is a mere 3 inches from full constitutional rights (except in Illinois, more later.) The killer then inserts scissors through the base of the skull, opens the scissors and rotates to make the opening larger. Then a canula (medical mini shop-vac) is inserted into the baby's head to suction out the brains, kill the baby and collapse the skull. The dead baby is then removed completely.

Late term and third trimester are synonymous in the US. Third trimester baby killings can alternately be done by killing and dismembering the baby in-utero. This method isn't as safe as partial birth because while the killer is dismembering the baby it's possible to damage the co-conspirator's uterus.

Cases have been documented where during the partial birth killing attempt the baby's head pops out completely before the killing. Some killers complete the killing anyway on the now breathing and crying baby. Some just say oops and place the baby on a shelf to suffer and die.

By the way, in Illinois it is legal to place on a shelf to die a baby born accidentally as a result of a partial birth killing attempt. When state lawmakers attempted to enact laws mandating post birth care of partial birth killing survivors, then State Senator Barak Hussein Obama voted no.

Dummy candidate Obama's shame

[dragonblustar]

I thought 1 in 5 pregnancies end in a miscarriage?

[fleagle]

I am also pro-choice in that I think it should be up to each State to decide if their state has a death penalty provision or not.<<

The Roe ruling was classic Supreme Court overreach.

[Salvation]

Pray for an end to abortion and the conversion of America (and the world) to a mindset of life!

[Salvation]

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CCC Search Result - Paragraph # 2271  (618 bytes )  preview document matches 1 Since the first century the Church has affirmed the moral evil of every procured abortion. This teaching has not changed and remains unchangeable. Direct abortion, URL: http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/2271.htm

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CCC Search Result - Paragraph # 2272  (580 bytes )  preview document matches 2 Formal cooperation in an abortion constitutes a grave offense. The Church attaches the canonical penalty of excommunication to this crime against human life. "A URL: http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/2272.htm

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CCC Search Result - Paragraph # 2322  (290 bytes )  preview document matches 2 From its conception, the child has the right to life. Direct abortion, that is, abortion willed as an end or as a means, is a "criminal" practice (GS 27 § 3), URL: http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/2322.htm

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4:	CCC Search Result - Paragraph # 2274  (554 bytes )  preview document matches gravely opposed to the moral law when this is done with the thought of possibly inducing an abortion, depending upon the results: a diagnosis must not be the equivalent URL: http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/2274.htm

[Salvation]

For the real picture of abortion, click this;
Priests for Life -- What an abortion looks like

[EternalVigilance]

We often cite the 40 to 50 million American children who have been brutally done to death by the abortionists and their enablers.

But, by doing so we ignore the hundreds of millions killed around the world, partially because of the example set by our country.

The United States sets the standard in this world. And so, we bear the responsibility, whether we acknowledge it or not.

The blood of the innocents cries out from the ground. What will God’s recompense be? I fear for this generation and for our posterity.

[rintense]

Can’t even describe how depressed this makes me.

[fleagle]

What the Supreme Court did in Roe was a Constitutional travesty and a human tragedy.

[snugs]

Abortions are not mandatory for women in China who have had one child but in most cases that is irrelevant because they cannot afford the penalties imposed on them if they have a second child. If they have twins or triplets in the first pregnancy they do not get fined and tax penalties.

I know this first hand as we have a joint venture company in China and also employ at our facility in Ashford a China national. He has been in the UK for 10 years now and decided to have another child whilst in Britain if he goes back to China he may have to pay a fine and high taxation but he is not 100 per cent sure especially as the older child is now in her last 2 years in school in Britain and then will go to a British university if he goes back with one child he may well escape any penalties.

I therefore assume in Britain the baby in late term abortions must be done by somehow killing the baby and then inducing as I believe that after about 14 weeks that is only way that it can be performed in Britain by the women giving birth. Am I correct in this. Sorry if this is offending anyone but especially with the bill coming up in Parliament I want to be fully aware of the facts and how I can intelligently counter act the arguments.

[50mm]

I'm sorry, but you are mistaken if you think China doesn't force abortions:

China Forced Abortions