Sentences with phrase «number of abortions performed»

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported last week that the rate and number of abortions performed in the United States fell by 5 percent in 2009, the most recent year for which data is available.

Contraceptives HAVE NOT decreased the number of abortions performed in this country.

Not exact matches

In 2008, just over 3,000 legal abortions were performed in the entire country — a tiny number given that Brazil has a population of 200 million.

And while historically, women in the U.S. have never been prosecuted for receiving abortions, a growing number of American women have been arrested in recent years for performing DIY abortions.

Look it up for yourself: the GOP has cut school lunch programs, Aid to dependent children, Planned Parenthood health care which provides medical care for expectant mothers (under the guise that they perform a limited number of abortions annually), Medicare programs which provides health care to the children who were born in the past because they weren't aborted, WIC which provides food to Women, Infants and Children... one could go on.

One of the interesting findings was also the lack of correlation between abortion being illegal and the number of actual abortions performed.

Lader described the pre-Roe social situation in which a relatively small number of abortions were performed legally in hospitals, while a large number were performed illegally in underground abortion mills.

A great many people are trying to ban forms of womens» healthcare, and perhaps you are too young to remember, but when it was illegal before, large numbers of women turned to «back alley» abortions, often performed in unsanitary conditions by untrained people.

The discussion highlighted the need for a substantive parliamentary debate on the current abortion legislation since medical science and practice is raising serious questions over when the foetus becomes viable outside the womb, the current twenty - four week limit for «social» abortion and the growing number of doctors in the UK who are refusing to perform abortions because of the aforementioned.

Kansas and Nebraska, which both had required that a minor's parents be notified, enacted measures requiring the parents to consent before the procedure is performed; this brings to 26 the number of states requiring parental consent before a minor has an abortion (see Parental Involvement in Minors» Abortions).