Pregnancy Termination: How frequently is pregnancy termination performed?

Legal abortion is the most frequently performed operation in the UK with about half these operations being undertaken within the NHS. Forty per cent of women in the UK will have had a pregnancy terminated by the age of 45 years. It has been estimated that worldwide 150,000 pregnancies are terminated each day (about one million each week and 350 million each year)! In some countries, such as Russia, more pregnancies are terminated than continue. Many Russian women will have between three and eight pregnancy terminations. There were 10 million terminations in China in 1987. Since the fall of communism in Romania, nearly four out of every five pregnancies are terminated. There are currently about six billion people in the world. This is increasing by 1 billion every ten years.

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