China performs 13 million abortions each year

July 30, 2009 by Infowars Ireland

The report said around 62 percent of the women undergoing abortions were single and aged between 20 and 29 years old.

www.telegraph.co.uk

China performs about 13 million abortions every year, mostly for single young women who experts say know little about contraception, the country’s state media said in a rare disclosure of sensitive family planning statistics.

The China Daily newspaper said the real number of abortions is believed to be even higher since the 13 million accounts for procedures in hospitals but many more are known to be carried out in unregistered rural clinics. Also, about 10 million abortion pills are sold every year in China, the paper said.

It quoted Wu Shangchun, a government official with the National Population and Family Planning Commission, as saying that nearly half of the women seeking abortions in China had used no form of contraception.

China imposed strict birth controls in the 1970s, limiting most couples to just one child. Sterilization and the use of intrauterine devices, or IUDs, for women are widely promoted and subsidised forms of contraception for married women. However, the policy tends to overlook the contraception needs of unmarried women even as attitudes toward casual sex have dramatically liberalized. Read full article…