Thursday, November 6, 2008

Did You Know?

From an information card distributed by the Sussex Area Right To Life Association:
Did you Know...
  • Every surgical abortion kills a baby that already has a beating heart and detectable brain waves.
  • 41.6% (43,167) of abortions occur under 9 weeks gestation* when ultrasound imaging shows the child waving his or her arms and legs.
  • 47.8% (49,601) of abortions take place between 9 and 12 weeks* when the fully formed baby has fingerprints, urinates, squints, swallows, sleeps and wakes.
  • 7.2% (7,471) of abortions occur at 13 to 16 weeks* when Dilation Evacuation procedures are performed.
  • 3.2% (3,321) of abortions occur at 16 weeks to birth* when many of those babies can survive outside the womb.
  • Each year Canadians spend over 80 million of taxpayers' dollars to provide abortion on demand.
  • 1 in 3 (38.3%) women undergoing abortion have already had one or more.*
Did you Know...
  • In the absence of Canadian law, abortion is available on demand throughout all nine months of pregnancy. This includes suction aspiration, D&E, saline, prostaglandin, chemical abortions and others.

  • 300 abortions occur in Canada each day.1
  • Abortions are most common among women in their 20's, who account for 53% of all abortions obtained in 2004.2
  • 17% of abortions are performed on girls between 10 and 19 years of age.3
  • One abortion increases a risk of breast cancer,4 depression and suicide.5

  • A study by the Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario in 2000 found that of the 41,039 women who aborted that year during the three month period following their abortion, those women had a more than four times higher rate of hospitalizations for infections, a five times higher rate of "surgical events" and a nearly five times higher rate of hospitalization for psychiatric problems than the matching group of women who had not had abortions.

  • 60% of women aborting report being coerced by family, friends, boyfriend, husband or their doctors.6

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