Canadian Abortion Facts:
© Campaign Life Coalition 2009
Law
• Abortion is legal throughout all 9 months of pregnancy, for any reason, up to the moment of birth.
• In Canada, all abortions are funded by taxpayers¹ – even though polls reveal that a majority disagree with their money being used to kill unborn babies out of convenience.
Statistics
• Almost 120,000 surgical abortions are committed annually in Canada.
• Since it’s legalization in 1969, 3.2 million Canadians have died from elective abortion.
• Today, abortion is used as a “back-up” birth control method in more than 96% of the instances.
• Less than 1% of abortions are for the so-called “hard cases” of rape and incest. Only 3% of all abortions are committed for the alleged hard case of “health risk to the mother”. Today therefore, abortion is used primarily as birth control.
• Nearly 1 in 4 pregnancies today result in abortion.
• About half of women with an unplanned pregnancy choose abortion. The other half keeps the child. Fewer than 1% offers the baby for adoption.
• There is a desperate shortage of newborn babies available for adoption in Canada. Couples suffering infertility can wait up to 10 years for a newborn to become available. Even international adoption can take up to 5 years.
Harm to Women
• Induced abortion increases the risk of breast cancer by 30% (see www.abortionbreastcancer.com).
• The College of Physician & Surgeons of Ontario found that women who had undergone abortion experienced: 4 times higher rate of hospitalization for infections; 5 times higher rate of a surgical event;nearly 5 times higher rate of hospitalization for psychiatric problems.
• An authoritative Finnish government study found that the suicide rate associated with abortion is 6 times higher than the suicide rate associated with childbirth.
• At least 14-20% of post-abortive women experience all symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
• Increased risk of infertility and ectopic pregnancy.
¹An exception is New Brunswick which only pays for hospital abortions, not those done at privately-owned, for profit clinics .
Canadian Abortion Facts