Although it is very difficult to account, the Ministry of Health has developed a Statistics on abortion in 2006 which allows us to learn more about the reality of such a hard and controversial issue.
Currently, the abortion debate is on the table due to the government's intention to change the current legislation. The figures will reveal in the future whether or not it has been a good change, the unfortunate thing is that many lives remain on the road.
Let's look at the figures.
101,592 women aborted, of which 31,618 (ie a third) had already done so on some other occasion.
63,225 women (62.23%) got rid of their fetuses before the eighth week of gestation
26,115 (25.71%) did so between the 9th and 12th week
6,240 (6.14%) between the 13th and 16th
3,933 (3.87%) between the 17th and 20th
2,001 (1.97%) of 21 weeks or more
● The arguments
98,523 women (96.98%) were protected by the danger that their own health could run.
2,875 (2.83%) women claimed fetal risk. According to the Spanish Collaborative Study of Congenital Malformations (ECEMC), 95% of pregnant women who received the bad news that the baby would be born with an abnormality interrupted pregnancy. The result is that fewer and fewer babies are born with Down syndrome. In 2006 there were 56% fewer cases of births of babies with this problem than in 1980. In women over 35 years, the decrease has been 85%.
181 women argued various reasons.
13 women claimed to have been victims of rape.
● The ages
13,398 were under 19
25,392 were young people between 20 and 24 years old,
25,320 were between 25 and 29 years old,
18,736 were between 30 and 34 years old,
13,037 were between 35 and 39,
4,831 between 40 and 44 years
382 over 44
● Centers
97.49% of women aborted in a private center while 2.51% did so in a hospital. There are no abortions performed in outpatient centers.
● Where
The autonomous communities with the highest abortion rates are Madrid (14.18%) followed by the Balearic Islands (14%), Catalonia (13.57%), Murcia (13.10%), Aragón (11.85%) and Andalusia ( 10.46%).
● Marital status and number of children
67,318 (66.26%) women were single and 24,973 (24.58%) were married, while 49,634 (48.85%) had no children.
● How many times
For 69,974 it was the first time he had an abortion, for 22,325 women it was his second time, for 6,149 the third time, for 1,816 the fourth, for 636 the fifth while 604 women aborted for the sixth time.
