Sentences with phrase «abortion rate of»

But none of the questions surround the horrific global abortion rate of one out of every four pregnancies.

Last month, The Lancet journal revealed the latest results from a study on abortion trends calling for a new response to the stagnant or increasing abortion rates of the developing...

Last month, The Lancet journal revealed the latest results from a study on abortion trends calling for a new response to the stagnant or increasing abortion rates of the developing world.

Not exact matches

In countries where abortions are legal - and even free — the rate of abortions are much lower.

Well, if you look at the statistical analysis, you will find that as abortion became legal and safe, the rate of violent crime has dropped in this country — significantly and with a high correlation to access to safe and legal abortions.

Even the vaunted right to abortion, both claimed and exercised at extraordinary rates, did not seem to mitigate the misery of millions of these women after the sexual revolution.

Additional reasons might be given for The United Methodist Church to rid itself of a commitment to abortion rights: the increasing numbers of African delegates (who are, in the main, pro-life) to General Conference; the horrifyingly high abortion rates (though the annual totals are continuing to decrease) in the United States; the pro-life drift of American public opinion (which United Methodism seems to follow); the uncommon clarity of ecumenical teaching on the dignity of the human person; and the providence of God.

Proponents of contraception, on the other hand, predicted in the late 60s that widespread contraceptive use would decrease divorce rates, increase marital satisfaction, lower unwanted pregnancies and abortions.

A 2005 study by Gregory S. Paul published in the Journal of Religion and Society stated that, «In general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy, and abortion in the prosperous democracies,» and «In all secular developing democracies, a centuries long - term trend has seen homicide rates drop to historical lows» with the exceptions being the United States (with a high religiosity level) and «theistic» Portugal.

Contraception is the promise of child - free sex, and when something goes wrong and a child is conceived ¯ due either to the technical failure rate of contraception or to the possibility of human error in anything we humans undertake ¯ abortion takes that child - free promissory note to the bank.

For example, countries in the Caribbean currently own the highest abortion rates (65 per 1,000 women of reproductive age).

o Conclusion # 1: The failures of the widely used birth «control» methods i.e. the pill and male condom have led to the large rate of abortions (one million / yr - CDC data) and S - TDs (19 million cases / yr - CDC data) in the USA.

So as this study reveals that the legal status of abortion plays a statistically non existent role in affecting abortion rates, we will need to rethink those energies.

If you think these ideas are outdated or irrelevant, I suggest you take a look at the damage that has been wrought on society by rampant divorce, abortion, our of wedlock pregnancy, falling birth rates, and a general view that life is NOT sacred, family is NOT important, and that children are more a burden to be avoided than anything.

One of the first things you notice is that global abortion rates vary widely.

In Sweden, for example, an increase in affordable access to contraception and the presence of free contraceptive counseling have paralleled a substantial increase in the teen abortion rate.

Lancet researchers looked at the legal status of abortion and found that it didn't correlate with lower abortion rates.

- Risk to a woman's health of childbirth (during first trimester, abortions have a death rate that is more than five times lower than the risk of death to mothers from childbirth.)

Most of the countries where abortion is illegal also suffer from widespread poverty and limited access to contraception — huge drivers in the abortion rate.

Recent data published by The Lancet journal shows that countries where abortion is illegal or heavily restricted — mainly in Africa and Latin America — don't have lower abortion rates than the rest of the world.

This is largely due to the efforts of the American economist Steven D. Levitt, who claimed, in Freakonomics [1], that the legalisation of abortion has led to a reduction in American crime rates.

The research evidence on this question is hard to deny and right in line with the predictions of the economic models: prohibition of secret abortions cuts both teenage abortion rates and teenage pregnancy rates.

Better still would be to offer confidential abortion to two similar groups of people, then remove confidentiality from one of those groups and then assess the relative change in pregnancy rates in the between the two groups.

To date, only two research papers in refereed academic journals have investigated the impact of confidentiality / no confidentiality on abortion or pregnancy rates.

The bottom of the graph indicates what has happened to conception (abortion and birth) rates to under 16s over this time.

This is very important because, although the remit of the Teenage Pregnancy Unit is to cut pregnancy rates, one of its main policy recommendations that it emphasises year after year is to provide youngsters with easier and better access to confidential abortion.

So, with those considerations in mind, I think it's safer to say that while legal restrictions on abortion might put a dent in the abortion rate, they won't put an end to abortion as we know it, and, most importantly, they won't do a thing to alter the number of unwanted pregnancies.

To date, over sixteen studies have looked at this issue and the impact on abortion, birth or pregnancy rates, the best of which is probably a study by economist Philip Levine [2].

Our research is backed up by all the other academic papers which examine the impact of easier access to EBC on unwanted pregnancy or abortion rates.

They say further that even if one does not equate a fetus with a child, as long as one attributes some value to the fetus» and they demonstrate how economists routinely make such outrageous calculations in insurance claims for loss of body parts» and put the value as low as one hundredth of a human being, the lowered crime rate would not come near justifying the number of abortions.

Some of these youngsters will get pregnant when they would not have done otherwise and the overall teenage pregnancy (births and abortions combined) rate is likely to increase.

The failures of the widely used birth «control» methods i.e. the Pill and male condom have led to the large rate of abortions (one million / yr) and S - TDs (19 million / yr) in the USA.

A couple of research papers indicated only a decrease in abortion rates that is statistically insignificant (i.e. it could have been due to chance rather than the change in the law), but these have tended to analyse data on abortion rates for all ages, not specifically teenage abortion rates.

But Clinton is far better positioned to keep the abortion rate at the record low it saw under President Obama while the Republican Party works for the next four years to produce the kind of candidate the people of this country deserve.

Perhaps the most effective measure that British Government could use to help achieve its target of cutting teenage pregnancy rates is to introduce a rule giving prohibiting confidential abortions for minors, such that parents would have to be informed or, better still, would have to consent to their youngsters having an abortion.

Even Anna Glazier, a health expert and a strong proponent of greater access to the morning - after pill, stated in early 2006 in an editorial in the British Medical Journal that greater access to emergency birth control has failed to cut pregnancy and abortion rates.

Furthermore, as I became more involved in the feminist conversation (some feminists are pro-life, of course, but many are pro-choice), I began to understand some of the arguments against the criminalization of abortion, like that banning abortion does not necessarily reduce the abortion rate, that enforcing a ban on all abortions would be impossible, and that women would likely seek out abortions through unsafe, illegal procedures anyway.

Yes, and there are 300 million citizens in the US and they can't stop from shooting each other and putting each other behind bars, and ruining the world banking system with dubious methods and instruments and wreck people's retirement savings all over the world, not to mention the high abortion rate, murder rate and consumption of resources rate... It's just a disorganized disaster, as opposed to the Nazi's who had an organized disaster.

His presidency did not make much of a dent in the abortion rate, and even though he appointed conservative judges, Roe vs. Wade remained intact.

By the time W finished his second term, I had graduated from college, come to terms with the fact that the criminalization of abortion is highly unlikely no matter the party in power, expanded my definition of «pro-life» to include Iraqi children and prisoners of war, and experienced first - hand some of the major problems with America's healthcare system, which along with poverty and education issues, contributes to the troubling abortion rate in the U.S. I remained pro-life idealistically, but for the first time, voted for a pro-choice president, hoping that the reforms I wanted to see in the healthcare, the economy, immigration, education, and for the socioeconomically disadvantaged would function pragmatically to reduce abortions.

Let's face it: We are unlikely to find a single party that truly represents a «culture of life,» and abortion will probably never be made illegal, so we'll have to go about it the old fashioned way, working through the diverse channels of the Kingdom to adopt and support responsible adoption, welcome single moms into our homes and churches, reach out to the lonely and disenfranchised, address the socioeconomic issues involved, and engage in some difficult conversations about the many factors that contribute to the abortion rate in this country, (especially birth control).

In a chapter dedicated to the work of the Life charity, studies on the link between abortion and breast cancer are discussed, as are findings that show rates of suicide and binge drinking are higher among women who have had abortions.

Somewhat dubious, I searched for the data, which reveals the pro-lifer was right on the facts but offering an unsupported interpretation: The study showed that the maternal mortality rate declined after abortion was prohibited in 1989, but that it had already been declining for more than a decade, probably as a result of rising levels of women's education.

The number of abortions had by believers and the rate at which believers have abortions should significantly less than for godless, immoral non-believers!

The rate of abortion of babies in the womb detected with Down's syndrome is expected to rise with the introduction of the test.

Leaving aside the issue of whether or not EBC may act in an abortifacient way in some cases, every single such study has found that schemes promoting EBC simply do not reduce observed rates of unwanted pregnancies or abortions.

This is an interesting statistic to discuss, but to claim (as the pro-lifer did) the outlawing of abortion lowered maternal mortality rates is incorrect.

(The failures of the widely used birth «control» methods i.e. the Pill and male condom have led to the large rate of abortions (one million / yr) and S - TDs (19 million / yr) in the USA.

With typical use rates like that, even if the girl was only coming to Planned Parenthood for a prescription, it was a certainty that some of her classmates who came for contraception would find themselves considering whether to return for an abortion.

Majority of University professors are atheist Majority of scientists are atheists Poverty rate is lower among atheists IQ rates are higher among atheists Illiteracy rates are lower among atheists Average Income rates are higher among atheists Divorce rates are lower among atheists Teen pregnancy rates are lower among atheists STD Infection rates are lower among atheists Abortion rates are lower among atheists Crime rates are lower among atheists Homicide rates are lower among atheists Please tell me... who is really blessed????????