Abortion is the ending of a pregnancy by removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus before it can survive outside the uterus. An abortion that occurs without intervention is known as a miscarriage or spontaneous abortion and occurs in approximately 30% to 50% of pregnancies.
- 1.2 million women have an abortion in the U.S. every year
- 51% of people surveyed in the U.S. say Abortion should be legal in all or most cases.
- 37% of all pregnanciesin New York City end in abortion.
- Every year, about a million girl fetuses are aborted and tens of thousands of girl babies are abandoned in China because of the country's one-child policy.
- Aborting a child because of its gender is legal in Sweden.
- Between 100,000 and 500,000 abortions per year continue to be performed in India solely because the fetus is female.
- Over 90% of women who learn that they are carrying a baby with Down Syndrome, will choose abortion over keeping their baby.
- Abortion Kills More African-AmericansThan the Seven Leading Causes of Death Combined.
- Islam allows abortion if the pregnancy is a threatto the woman's life or if it's the result of a rapeand is less than 4 months old.
- Frank Sinatra's motherran an illegal abortion business from her home.
- The SEX Party in Australia is looking to legalize marijuana, euthanasia, censorship, abortion, and tax the church.
- The mortality rate for abortions in the U.S. is 0.67per 100,000 procedures. For colonoscopies is about 20per 100,000 procedures.
- On January 2000, due to a computer glitch, incorrect Down syndrome test results were sent to 154 pregnant women and two abortions were carried out.
- In 1990, Belgium's government suspended its King from power for one day so that a law legalizing abortion could be passed without him, a Catholic, having to sign it.
- The majority of women seeking an abortion are not teenagers: 58% are in their 20s, and 6 in 10 already have a child at home.
- The Egyptian Kahun Papyrus (1850 B.C.) suggests crocodile feceseither for preventing conception or as an abortifacient.
- 40% of minors having an abortion report that neither of their parents knew about the abortion.
- Providing birth control to women at no cost substantially reduced unplanned pregnancies and cut abortion rates by 62% to 78% over the U.S. national rate, a study found.
- Women undergoing abortion after 18 weeks gestation sometimes give birth to a fetus that may survive briefly. It happens in about 4 per 100,000abortions.
- 1 in 3 women in the UK have an abortion in their lifetime.
- Homosexuality and abortionwere decriminalised in Russia under Lenin's leadership.
- 70,000 women worldwide die each year from back-street abortions.
- Worldwide, around one quarter of pregnancies end in abortion. Nearly half are illegal.
- Abortion is legal in Tunisia, an Arab country, since 1973.
- From 2011 to 2014, the U.S. abortion rate dropped by 12% due to a decrease in unintended pregnancies and an increase in contraceptive use.
- Vatican City is one of six countries worldwide thatban abortion completely,even if the mother's life is in danger.