Wednesday, October 03, 2007

Statictic on abortion

Nowadays, abortion is a controversial issue and is unacceptale in most of the countries. Increasingly, surrogate births are happening in all around the world.

Do you ever wonder about how many innocent babies aborted everyday? Well, in the worldwide, the number of abortions per day is approximately 126,000 cases. Then, if the number of abortions per day multiply 365 days, so abortions that happen in every year is aboout 46 Million cases. 78% of all abortions are obtained in developing countries and 22% occur in developed countries. Worldwide, the lifetime average is about 1 abortion per woman.

The following are the reasons why women in U.S undergo abortion.
~Wants to postpone childbearing: 25.5%
~Wants no (more) children: 7.9%
~Cannot afford a baby: 21.3%
~Having a child will disrupt education or job: 10.8%
~Has relationship problem or partner does not want pregnancy: 14.1%
~Too young; parent(s) or other(s) object to pregnancy: 12.2%
~Risk to maternal health: 2.8%
~Risk to fetal health: 3.3%
~Other: 2.1%

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