Limits on Abortion

Is it actually a fact? I mean, the levels of abortion estimated in the UK before it was legal is much lower than the current level of abortions carried out. I believe a similar situation exists in the US.Do you have any statistics from countries which have gone backwards from a state of legal abortion to a state of illegal abortion?

Do you have any links to data to back that up?I was unable to find any particularly solid figures, about the best I could find was this, cross-referencing with this census, gives an approximate abortion rate for northern ireland of 3.2, compared with 17.8 for england/wales.The figure for Northern Ireland is, doubtless, an underestimate for the reasons given in the link, but it seems unlikely it's an underestimate by a factor of 5 or more needed to bring the figures up to the level observed in england/wales. Interestingly, the figures for scotland are much lower than england/wales but still a factor 4 larger than those in Northern Ireland.

Thank you.

The figures given are for NI women coming to other parts of the UK for their abortions - I would hazard a guess this is the most common means to get an abortion for NI (and probably eire) women. After all it's free and safe.As the link I gave points out, it's based on self reporting of address so is probably an underestimate. Which will skew the england/wales figures up and the NI figures down; however, the comparative size of the populations means the upward effect on the england/wales figures is likely to be small.

I have to disagree; vacuum aspiration is surgery. It involves using tools and cutting instruments to alter the state of her body; that makes it surgery - not particularly invasive or serious surgery but surgery none-the-less. Hence the fact that it is usually referred to as surgical abortion (q.v. Wikipedia).

No, it lists vacuum aspiration under Surgical Abortion. It's vacuum aspiration I'm referring to. I've seen video of vacuum aspiration performed; I'd describe it as surgery. Ok. Fair point. Getting your ears pierced doesn't involve anaesthetics, though, does it?Edited by Mr Jack, : Additional response.