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India lost more girl babies to abortion than people lost in all wars worldwide for 90 years

More girl babies have died in India in 10 years than people died in war worldwide in 90 years.

Pro-life author S. Nye writes:

“It has been estimated that during all the wars combined in the world between 1900 and 1990, the total number of civilians killed was 62 million.

But India has lost over 63 million girls in the single decade between 2008 and 2018 due to the widespread practice of sex selective abortion.”

L. Nye Whose Child? UK Abortion, a Gospel Matter (undated) 89

Cites:

“More than 63 million women ‘missing’ in India, statistics show” Guardian January 30, 2018

Chris Hedges “‘What Every Person Should Know About War‘” New York Times July 6, 2003

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Statistics: How many abortion clinics do late-term abortions?

Here is some information about what percentage of abortion clinics do abortions at different stages of pregnancy:

In 2012:

95% of abortion clinics did abortions at eight weeks

72% of them did abortions at 12 weeks

34% did abortions at a 20 weeks

16% did abortions at 24 weeks

J Jerman and RK Jones “Secondary Measures of Access to Abortion Services in the United States, 2011 and 2012: Gestational Age Limits, Cost, and Harassment” Women’s Health Issues (2014) 24 (4):e419–e424

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Nearly half of women having abortions are living in poverty

Pro-choice author RN Carmona writes:

“That 49% of women having abortions in the United States in 2014 were women falling below the poverty line is a striking statistic, but the trend since 2008 is of greater importance. Briefly, in 2014, a family of two with a household income of $15,730 or less was considered poor or in other words, a family that fell below the poverty line.

In 2008, 42% of women having abortions were women who fell below the poverty line. The trend yields an increase in abortion rates in women below the poverty line of 16.7% over that seven year span or 2.3% per year.

The trend continuing as such resulted in an increase in abortion rates of 50% in women below the federal poverty line in the year 2017.

The trend among affluent women in the United States is precisely the opposite. 31% of women choosing to have an abortion were in the highest income groups in 2008. In 2014, that number decreased to 25%. This yields a decrease of 19.4% over that period or 2.8% per year.”

RN Carmona Ending the Abortion Debate: On the Issues That Truly Matter (undated) 19-20

cites:

J Jerman, RK Jones and T Onda “Characteristics of US Abortion Patients in 2014 and Changes since 2008” Guttmacher Institute, 2016

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Pro-choice author complains that not enough doctors are trained to be abortionists

Pro-choice author Rickie Solinger writes:

“97% of family practice residents and 36% of obstetrics and gynecology (OB/GYN) residents have no experience in first-trimester abortion procedures. Indeed, a recent study found that abortion education is limited in medical schools in the United States…

Based on the data available, the authors found that a minority of medical education programs offered abortion education at any level of medical training. Even when clinical experience was offered as part of third-year rotations (45% reported the availability of this experience), participation was low, suggesting to the authors that medical faculty did not encourage student proficiency in this area, and possibly suggesting that students avoided abortion training as a stigmatized, dangerous, or possibly constrained field.”

Rickie Solinger Reproductive Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013) 79

cites:

Eve Espey, Tony Ogburn, Alice Chavez, Clifford Qualls, and Mario Leyba “Abortion Education in Medical Schools: A National Survey” American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 192 (2005) 640 – 643

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Number of abortion clinics decreased by 17% between 2011 and 2014

From a report compiled by The National Academy of Sciences:

“The overall number of facilities providing abortions – especially specialty abortion clinics – is declining. The greatest proportional decline is in states that have enacted abortion – specific regulations.

In 2014, there were 272 abortion clinics in the United States – 17% fewer than in 2011 – and 39% of women of reproductive age resided in a county without an abortion provider.

25 states have five or fewer abortion clinics; five states have only one abortion clinic. An estimated 17% of women travel more than 50 miles to obtain an abortion.”

The National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee on Reproductive Health Services: The Safety and Quality of Abortion Care in the United States (Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2018) 6

Pro-life laws are closing abortion facilities.

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One in four pregnancies now end in abortion in England and Wales

The Times reported:

“The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said that the share of women who choose abortion is now more than a quarter for the first time as the number rose for the second year in a row.

Figures released this week showed that 25.2 per cent of conceptions in England and Wales ended in abortion in 2019, up from 24 per cent the previous year…

The figures showed that the number of pregnancies ending in abortion went up among all age groups in 2019.

Ten years ago just over a fifth of pregnancies ended in abortion. For women in the second half of their 30s, the proportion of pregnancies ending in abortion has gone up by almost a third over the past decade…

Possible reasons for the rise in the numbers include avoiding disruption to career or lifestyle, or uncertainty about the relationship with the father of the child.”

Neil Johnston “One in four pregnancies ends in abortion in England and Wales” The Times August 06 2021

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Only 34% of Northern Irish citizens support abortion for any reason

A 2016 survey in Northern Ireland Life and Times found:

“Some 81 percent supported abortion in the event of a foetal abnormality, 73 percent in cases of a possible foetal abnormality and 78 percent in cases of rape or incest…

However, when voters were asked whether they supported abortion simply because a woman did not want the child only 34 percent said “yes”, and 60 percent said “no”.”

Sam Coates “Abortion: pollsters struggle to gauge will of Northern Ireland people” The Times June 02 2018

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Pro-Choicer: 30 states would ban abortion if Roe were overturned

Pro-Choice author Rickie Solinger writes:

“Experts have predicted that if Roe v. Wade is overturned, approximately 30 states, where about 50% of women in America live, would recriminalize abortion within a year.”

Rickie Solinger Reproductive Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013) 86

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When abortions are performed in England and Wales

In England and Wales in 2019:

one in five abortions are carried out at seven weeks (picture below)

one in 5 at 8 weeks (pictures below)

nearly one in 10 at nine weeks,

and the same percentage between 10 and 12 weeks

S. Nye Whose Child? UK Abortion, a Gospel Matter (undated) 31

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Indian doctors deceive women seeking sex-selective abortions

Indian writer and researcher Ashish Bose writes:

“… Very often doctors show utter disregard for medical ethics. They know very well that through ultrasonography it is not possible to determine the sex of the foetus within 12 weeks of conception and yet they conduct these tests and indicate the results (invariably “it is a girl”).

The doctors know that it is just speculation and not scientific observation. In fact, we have come across reports of cases when after abortion it was found that the foetus was male, much to the agony of the parents.”

Ashish Bose “Female Foeticide: A Civilizational Collapse” in

Tulsi Patel Sex–Selective Abortion in India: Gender, Society and New Reproductive Technologies (New Delhi, India: Sage Publications, 2007) 83

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