Russia: world's highest rate of abortions - Daily News | Lifestyle | IOL.co.za: Women of all ages used to fill gynaecologist Lyubov Yerofeyeva's Soviet state clinic, lined up by the dozen for back-to-back abortions. “It was more common to take sick days for an abortion than for a cold in those days,” she said.
Two decades after the Soviet Union's collapse, wider availability of contraception and a resurgence of religion have reduced the numbers of abortions overall, but termination remains the top method of birth control in Russia. Its abortion rate - 1.3 million, or 73 per 100 births in 2009 - is the world's highest.
'via Blog this'
No comments:
Post a Comment