Jesus H. Christ
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angel_janeI was looking at some information (Link later) and found this shocking statistic 49% of pregnancies are unintended in the United States. That is just unbelieveable to me. And G.W. Bush is advocating abstinance over contraceptives!?!?! Get these kids some real education!
For those of you thinking Britian must have similar rates, this is our figure; 20.5% of pregnancies are unintended in Great Britain.
I just can not get my head around it.
For those asking what criteria were used this is them; Definition: The percentage of pregnancies that are unintended. The number of unintended pregnancies has been estimated by adding the number of unintended births with the number of abortions. Women?s pregnancy intentions were determined by their answer to the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) question "was your last birth wanted?" If they answered "no," their pregnancy was considered unintended, although this does not take into consideration mistimed births. The percentage of unintended pregnancies has been estimated for those countries for which DHS data is unavailable.
All data can be found here;
http://www.medicationabortion.com/legal/index.html
and their list of sources are; Legal status of abortion
United Nations. World Abortion Policies 1999. UN Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. New York, NY: United Nations, 1999.
Abortion rate
Henshaw SK, Singh S, Haas T. Incidence of Abortion Worldwide. International Family Planning Perspectives, 1999;25, Supplement.
Alan Guttmacher Institute. Issues in brief: An overview of clandestine abortion in Latin America. New York, NY: Alan Guttmacher Institute, 1996.
Unsafe abortion ratio
World Health Organization. Unsafe abortion. Global and regional estimates of incidence of and mortality due to unsafe abortion, with a listing of available country data (WHO/RHT/MSM/97.16). WHO Division of Reproductive Health. Geneva, Switzerland. World Health Organization, 1998.
Status of Mifepristone
Compiled by Gynuity Health Projects, 2005.
Total fertility rate
United Nations. World Population Policies 2003. UN Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. New York, NY: United Nations, 2004.
Maternal mortality ratio
United Nations. World Population Policies 2003. UN Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. New York, NY: United Nations, 2004.
Contraceptive prevalence
United Nations. World Contraceptive Use 2003. UN Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Accessed 15 March 2005 from http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/contraceptive2003/WallChart_CP2003.pdf
Unintended pregnancies
Daulaire N, Leidl P, Mackin L, Murphy C, Stark L. Promises to keep: the toll of unintended pregnancies on women's lives in the developing world. Global Health Council, 2002.
For those of you thinking Britian must have similar rates, this is our figure; 20.5% of pregnancies are unintended in Great Britain.
I just can not get my head around it.
For those asking what criteria were used this is them; Definition: The percentage of pregnancies that are unintended. The number of unintended pregnancies has been estimated by adding the number of unintended births with the number of abortions. Women?s pregnancy intentions were determined by their answer to the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) question "was your last birth wanted?" If they answered "no," their pregnancy was considered unintended, although this does not take into consideration mistimed births. The percentage of unintended pregnancies has been estimated for those countries for which DHS data is unavailable.
All data can be found here;
http://www.medicationabortion.com/legal/index.html
and their list of sources are; Legal status of abortion
United Nations. World Abortion Policies 1999. UN Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. New York, NY: United Nations, 1999.
Abortion rate
Henshaw SK, Singh S, Haas T. Incidence of Abortion Worldwide. International Family Planning Perspectives, 1999;25, Supplement.
Alan Guttmacher Institute. Issues in brief: An overview of clandestine abortion in Latin America. New York, NY: Alan Guttmacher Institute, 1996.
Unsafe abortion ratio
World Health Organization. Unsafe abortion. Global and regional estimates of incidence of and mortality due to unsafe abortion, with a listing of available country data (WHO/RHT/MSM/97.16). WHO Division of Reproductive Health. Geneva, Switzerland. World Health Organization, 1998.
Status of Mifepristone
Compiled by Gynuity Health Projects, 2005.
Total fertility rate
United Nations. World Population Policies 2003. UN Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. New York, NY: United Nations, 2004.
Maternal mortality ratio
United Nations. World Population Policies 2003. UN Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. New York, NY: United Nations, 2004.
Contraceptive prevalence
United Nations. World Contraceptive Use 2003. UN Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Accessed 15 March 2005 from http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/contraceptive2003/WallChart_CP2003.pdf
Unintended pregnancies
Daulaire N, Leidl P, Mackin L, Murphy C, Stark L. Promises to keep: the toll of unintended pregnancies on women's lives in the developing world. Global Health Council, 2002.
