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India Has Six Million Abortions Annually, Figure Could be Higher

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India Has Six Million Abortions Annually, Figure Could be Higher Email this article

by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
December 20, 2004

New Dehli, India (LifeNews.com) -- As many as six million abortions occur in India annually and the number could be higher. The figure is ten times the official government estimate and is likely so high because residents of the Asian nation consider abortion a method of birth control.

The Abortion Assessment Project India (APP-I) surveyed the number of abortions in regions across the country.

Given that some abortion facilities don't report all abortions and that women in rural areas often use herbs, medicines and other chemical mixtures to cause abortions, the six million figure is likely too low.

Ravi Duggal, coordinator of the Centre for Enquiry into Health and Allied Themes, conducted the APPI study.

Duggal told the Indo-Asian News Service, "Around 4.8 million abortions are performed by formal service providers and another one-third of the abortions by informal service providers."

By comparison, approximately 1.3 million abortions are reported annually in the United States.

Duggal indicated that the last government census report estimated 600,000 abortions were performed in India each year.

"Reporting to the authorities is not complete so there are large gaps," Duggal said Monday as he presented the full report.

According to the IANS news story, Duggal said that "abortions are used frequently as a contraceptive to limit the family size or space out family."

Despite abortion's legality, the study found that as many as one-third of women in India report complications following the abortion.

The study called for increased awareness of contraception methods as a way to reduce the number of abortions.

In addition to high abortion numbers, India has long faced the problem of sex-selection abortions and infanticide because of a cultural bias in favor of having sons. The Indian government has been tackling the problem and put in place restrictions on when ultrasounds can be used during a pregnancy.

Last week a woman was compensated by an Indian court after British-based abortion business Marie Stopes botched the abortion of her twins.

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More evidence of the devaluing of human life.
 
From my conversations/experiences with Indians, I thought they were really against pre-marital sex? I wonder how many were post-marital.
 
that's 6 million less mouths to feed, since they can't feed what they got already.

since you're so pro-life and pro-family, how many children have you adopted?
 
Originally posted by: rickn
that's 6 million less mouths to feed, since they can't feed what they got already.

since you're so pro-life and pro-family, how many children have you adopted?
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:thumbsup:
 
i've also heard that some indians kill their children if they turn out to be girls so they don't have to pay a dowry
 
Originally posted by: alent1234
i've also heard that some indians kill their children if they turn out to be girls so they don't have to pay a dowry
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I think I might have seen that posted here a few months back.
 
And I bet you support president Bush's decision to not give money to international planned parenthood because they teach people about birth control and help pay for it. There are 30 million people in the city of mumbai and there are a dozen other cities with near that population in India. The country has a serious population problem.

And for the one that asked about adoption, India stopped foreign adoption about 20 years ago. They would rather their kids grow up in orphanages in India than get adopted into the US and raised christian.
 
I would have to agree with

rickn
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that's 6 million less mouths to feed, since they can't feed what they got already.
since you're so pro-life and pro-family, how many children have you adopted?
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At least they are dealing with the problem as they see fit.... Once more we think that what is good for our country should be good for others.... Not true, they are their own country, they have their own rules and laws, not our problem.........

Next topic........

 
Originally posted by: JavaMomma
We must stop those baby killers. We should invade with our military and put an end to this.
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Don't give Bush any ideas.

Somebody suggested to him that Al Quaeda was in Iraq and look where that has taken us:disgust:
 
Originally posted by: KidViciou$
liberate the embryos from the tyrrany, over 6 million potential babies were buried in mass graves (trash heaps)
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they were flushed, and given back to the Sea
 
I'm glad to hear the Indians have pro-choice policies and are using them.

Thanks for the info Riprorin...
 
All those potential converts...LOST!

Such a shame..., eh?

On the other hand, those are Six Million dead heathens by your way of thinking, right?

Sheezh, what a piece of work is Rip.

Let India decide what it wants to do about it. You haven't been able to change Roe v. Wade and now you're pretending to take the moral high ground for another nation? Good grief, your hubris and stupidity are monumental.... Scary, in fact. You don't own any guns do you?

Robert
 
that's right chess, all 6 million of those potential babies will go to a state of limbo because htey are un-baptized!


why doesn't the pope issue an edict that will allow all un-baptized babies to go to heavan everyday so that they don't have to stay in limbo???
 
Originally posted by: judasmachine
good they're overpopulated anyway. well the entire earth is overpopulated, india is just a really bad case.
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We just need more land, 76 percent of earth is water. Earth is not earth, its more like Aqua Planet.
Send them off to south america and central america to help populate the place and help modernize it.
australia, green land, anartica, and artic could use more people too!
 
wchou:

You mean we need CONDOS in Antarctica? Hmmm...then we'd need zoning laws, which leads to green spaces and homeowner's associations, lawyers, courts, judges, police, Dunkin' Donuts franchises, roads, crime, schools, sex, and ultimately abortion.

It's all just a vicious cycle, this penny ante existence we lead in these weak boxes we call bodies. We are in need of a new paradigm for EXISTENCE, for being and nothingness. Something to replace the angst and turmoil of our transitory and meaningless lives. WE NEED RIP! He's our man and our salvation.....

-Robert
 
Originally posted by: rickn
that's 6 million less mouths to feed, since they can't feed what they got already.

since you're so pro-life and pro-family, how many children have you adopted?
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Yes, let's spare them the horror of actually living life. By your logic, we should go in and kill everyone in the country until the population meets whatever you would consider a 'sustainable' population. That way, they could feed everyone they have, right? :roll: Same goes for everyone else in this thread who parroted this response. This is directly analagous to Bush saying (hypothetically) that we should kill all Muslims because terrorism is such a big problem.
Originally posted by: KidViciou$
DAMN IT!!!! THATS 6 MILLION LESS POTENTIAL CHRISTIANS!!!!! ABORTION IS WRONG!!!!
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Originally posted by: CycloWizard
Originally posted by: rickn
that's 6 million less mouths to feed, since they can't feed what they got already.

since you're so pro-life and pro-family, how many children have you adopted?
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Yes, let's spare them the horror of actually living life. By your logic, we should go in and kill everyone in the country until the population meets whatever you would consider a 'sustainable' population. That way, they could feed everyone they have, right? :roll: Same goes for everyone else in this thread who parroted this response. This is directly analagous to Bush saying (hypothetically) that we should kill all Muslims because terrorism is such a big problem.
Originally posted by: KidViciou$
DAMN IT!!!! THATS 6 MILLION LESS POTENTIAL CHRISTIANS!!!!! ABORTION IS WRONG!!!!
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it's not much of a life when all you can do is watch your child starve to death.
 
Originally posted by: Riprorin
India Has Six Million Abortions Annually, Figure Could be Higher Email this article

by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
December 20, 2004
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Ahh yes, lifenews.com. Justifying our ridiculous opinions with made up statistics since 1992.

 
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