Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Brief Statistics About Abortion Worldwide


Abortion is legal in some countries but not others, in different countries the week limit is different; For example, in United Kingdom is up to 24 weeks where as Turkey is up to 10 weeks.
While women of every social class seek terminations, the typical woman who ends her pregnancy is either young, white, unmarried, poor, or over the age of 40. In the United States and worldwide, abortion (known also as elective termination of pregnancy) remains common.
The US Supreme Court legalized abortion in the well-known Roe v Wade decision in 1973; currently, there are about 1.2 million abortions are performed each year in the United States.
Worldwide, some 20-30 million legal abortions are performed each year, with another 10-20 million abortions performed illegally. Illegal abortions are unsafe and account for 13% of all deaths of women because of serious complications. Death from abortion is almost unknown in the United States or in other countries where abortion is legally available.

I can understand that some causes of abortion might be logical and taken into consideration, such as fetal genetic anomalies, infection, radiation…etc, but the thing that could not be accepted is when a woman decides to kill an innocent human in the name of freedom, rights or even irresponsible act in sex desire.


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