Thursday, January 5, 2012

Issue of the Week: Abortion

1. How many abortions are there per year in the United States?
- There are about 1.2 million abortions per year in he United States, 749, 232 of which are done within 9 weeks of the pregnancy.

2. Can abortions be dangerous to the mother?
- Abortions performed in the first 9 weeks of pregnancy are very low in risk. Less than 1 in every 100,000 women who get abortions end up dying from the abortion.

3. How many pregnancies lead to abortion?
- There are about 205 million pregnancies each year world wide. Over 1/3 are unintended and about 1/5 end in abortion.

 http://prolifeaction.org/faq/abortion.php#yearly
http://www.womenonweb.org/article-237-en.html

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