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You are assuming that women who have abortions never have children.

What they mean is that 90% of all women will have at least one abortion. A woman who has an abortion can follow with only more abortions or only live births or a combination of the two.

I suspect the 1 in 5 number abortion/live birth is skewed because China - with the world’s largest population - limits women (at least they used to) to one child. The majority of women in China are poor and hence abortion could be the preferred method of preventing births because it’s probably provided free and birth control is costly or non-existent. I wouldn’t be surprised if the average Chinese woman has 10 to 15 abortions versus 1 live birth over her lifetime.

If I had to guess on the abortion number in the US I’d put it at 50% of all women will have an abortion over a lifetime. This is reasonable considering the 2 million babies killed in the US each year. I’d also guess that the vast majority of US women who do kill an unborn child do it once and regret it forever.

“I’d also guess that the vast majority of US women who do kill an unborn child do it once and regret it forever.”

I am 100% positive that you are correct.

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.