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Originally Posted by DiracSpike
Interesting stats, thanks. I'm pro-choice to a point, hopefully with more education and subsidized contraceptives we can keep bringing that number down to zero, that's the dream. As it stands right now I can live with those numbers although even .66% at 21+ weeks is too much for me that's still either 621 babies that should be born or 621 abortions that should have been performed much much earlier (barring medical complications that may have come up).
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621 is .11% (1/1000) of babies born in Alberta. That doesn’t seem like an unreasonably high medical necessity rate. For example about 1% of pregnancies end with a still birth. Without data to show the number of these that are medically unnecessary I don’t think the numbers suggest a problem.