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1 comment:
World estimations of the number of terminations carried out each year is somewhere between 20 and 88 million.(likely 55 to 60)
Over 3,500 per day / Over 1.3 million per year in America alone.
50% of that 1.3 million claimed failed birth control was to blame.
A further 48% had failed to use any birth control at all.
And 2% had medical reasons.
That means a staggering 98% of unwanted pregnancies may have been avoided had an effective birth control been used.
People have to stop using abortion as birth control.
People should be able to choose to use birth control,
so as to avoid having to make another choice.
I'd like to see effective birth control made available to all who can't afford it.
http://www.sexual-health-resource.org/hormonal_birth_control.htm
Bruce
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