One in five pregnancies ends in abortion: study

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One in five pregnancies ends in abortion: study
Oct 11 07:05 PM US/Eastern

One in five pregnancies worldwide ends in an abortion, amounting to a significant fall compared with the mid-nineties, but nearly half these terminations still take place in unsafe conditions, a study says.

In 2003, the latest year for which full figures are available, 42 million abortions were carried out around the world, compared with 46 million in 1995, according to the paper published by The Lancet next Saturday.

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If we could just get rid of those other 42 million abortions and let every child be born. I pray for it daily.
 
How would they know the statistics reliably? Many countries don’t keep them, or are not even able to.
 
42 million abortions a year?

I wish somebody would study this a bit further. I can’t help but wonder if it weren’t for abortion, wouldn’t the reported ‘unwanted pregnancy’ rate be VASTLY higher than before the introduction of “safe, effective, contraception?”

It almost seems like abortion alone could count for the reduced birthrate. What are all those contraceptives doing?
 
Here is an article with a bit more detail :

forbes.com/forbeslife/health/feeds/hscout/2007/10/12/hscout609085.html

The abortion numbers may have dropped, but it is from “better” contraceptive use. 😦

There’s a quote in here from Beth Fredrick who is the executive vice president of the International Women’s Health Group, commenting on unsafe abortions in developing countries, “But behind the statistics, we see that the majority of abortions are going to be unsafe, particularly for the impoverished. This is an atrocity in terms of how we recognize human rights.”

How backwards a remark that truly is; pray for the day when her eyes will be truly opened…
 
Why aren’t 42 million deaths referred to as a “Holocaust”?
 
I assume that the subject here is induced abortions (fetacide and infantacide).

What’s the %age of pregnancies that end in spontaneous abortions (otherwise known as miscarriages)?
 
DaveBj said:
I assume that the subject here is induced abortions (fetacide and infantacide).

What’s the %age of pregnancies that end in spontaneous abortions (otherwise known as miscarriages)?
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There may be no statistics for those events as they are not thought to be brought about by some outside intervention/procedure. In any event, I’ve never seen any statistics. The identification of a miscarriage can be somewhat subjective as some miscarriages occur so early in the pregnancy that it is difficult to determine if pregnancy has even occurred.
 
According to the MSN article:

“‘Abortion levels where it is illegal are just as high as where it is legal,’” said study co-author Gilda Sedgh, a senior researcher at the Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit group focused on reproductive issues, based in New York City."

I’m not sure I really believe this. Isn’t this Guttmacher Institute the one that said 90% of people have sex before marriage, or some nonsense?
 
FuzzyBunny116 said:
According to the MSN article:

“‘Abortion levels where it is illegal are just as high as where it is legal,’” said study co-author Gilda Sedgh, a senior researcher at the Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit group focused on reproductive issues, based in New York City."

I’m not sure I really believe this. Isn’t this Guttmacher Institute the one that said 90% of people have sex before marriage, or some nonsense?
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Guttmacher Institute is the policy think-tank of Planned Parenthood.
 
There was a Chicago Tribune article this weekend that also referenced this Guttmacher study. According to the Trib article, the Guttmacher study ‘found’ that 9 out of 10 women worldwide have an abortion before age 45. No definition of what they defined as abortion was given, but the subject of the article was surgical abortion, so it can be inferred that this is their claim.

9 of 10? Baloney. Maggot infested, stinking, rotten baloney. Naturally, the article nowhere disclosed the relationship between Planned Parenthood and Guttmacher. Poor reporting, as usual on the subject.
 
manualman said:
There was a Chicago Tribune article this weekend that also referenced this Guttmacher study. According to the Trib article, the Guttmacher study ‘found’ that 9 out of 10 women worldwide have an abortion before age 45. No definition of what they defined as abortion was given, but the subject of the article was surgical abortion, so it can be inferred that this is their claim.

9 of 10? Baloney. Maggot infested, stinking, rotten baloney. Naturally, the article nowhere disclosed the relationship between Planned Parenthood and Guttmacher. Poor reporting, as usual on the subject.
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Actually, I don’t find that number surprising. Sad, but not surprising.
 
masondoggy said:
Actually, I don’t find that number surprising. Sad, but not surprising.
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I don’t believe it for a minute. There are women that have multiple abortions. Then there are women that have no abortions. If you have 100 women and 45 of them have 2 abortions each, the statistics may indicate that 100 women had 90 abortions, hence 90% of the women had abortions. That would be a false conclusion. I wonder if that sort of mathematical sloppiness is at work.
 
MelanieAnne said:
I don’t believe it for a minute. There are women that have multiple abortions. Then there are women that have no abortions. If you have 100 women and 45 of them have 2 abortions each, the statistics may indicate that 100 women had 90 abortions, hence 90% of the women had abortions. That would be a false conclusion. I wonder if that sort of mathematical sloppiness is at work.
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I don’t believe Guttmacher either. I think your assessment is on the mark. I hate crummy stats analysis.

A former coworker told me that her cousin was on abortion # 13, I believe. I know that would skew the numbers, especially if Guttmacher is being so sloppy as to only look at # of abortions in time range/total # of women.
 
Mac6yver said:
Your right, 90% is way to low. I would say 94%.
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Sex outside of marriage does not inevitably indicate an abortion will follow. The idea that 90% of all women have had abortions sounds to me like someone’s idea of validating their choices, not anything resembling a fact.
 
SeekerJen said:
I don’t believe Guttmacher either. I think your assessment is on the mark. I hate crummy stats analysis.

A former coworker told me that her cousin was on abortion # 13, I believe. I know that would skew the numbers, especially if Guttmacher is being so sloppy as to only look at # of abortions in time range/total # of women.
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Apparently they realize the worthlessness of this average, according to the quoted article:
On the basis of the 2003 data, on average 90 percent of women worldwide will have had an abortion before the age of 45, the study calculates.
This varies, though, between many women who will have had multiple terminations and many who will have had none at all, note the authors
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If they knew it was worthless data, why did they include that statement?

Answer: they knew that poorly skilled reporters (or ones with an agenda) like the one that wrote the Chicago Trib article would cite the 9 out of 10 statistic, but NOT the disclaimer. Sneaky. :mad:
 
manualman said:
If they knew it was worthless data, why did they include that statement?

Answer: they knew that poorly skilled reporters (or ones with an agenda) like the one that wrote the Chicago Trib article would cite the 9 out of 10 statistic, but NOT the disclaimer. Sneaky. :mad:
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That would be unimpressive journalism, maybe even shameful. Most people will not realize what it means.

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