| Interim StaffOn March 31, Statistics Canada released information showing that Canadian women committed 106,418 in 2001.
The 106,418, which CLC National News compares to eliminating a mid-sized city each year, is added to the more than 2 million abortions committed in Canada since 1960. The statistics reveal that almost one-quarter of all Canadian pregnancies end in abortion, or, for every three babies born, one is killed. Jim Hughes, national president of Campaign Life Coalition called the 106,418 surgical abortions “an alarming figure,” especially considering it is just the top of the abortion iceberg. As LifeSite Daily News noted, “The numbers do not include chemical abortions by the abortion pill or the abortifacient morning-after pill or abortions by abortifacient ‘contraceptives’.” CLC’s Hughes noted, it would be impossible to count the number of chemical abortions. The surgical abortion numbers represent a 1 per cent shift upwards from the previous year’s 105,427 abortions. The abortion rate has also increased from 15.4 abortions per 1,000 women in 2000 to 15.6 abortions per 1,000 women in 2001. While Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia had the most abortions (they are the three most populous provinces), the abortion rate was highest in the territories. The abortion rate in the Northwest Territories was 28.3 per 1,000 women and 22.7 per 1,000 in Nunavut followed by 19.6 in Quebec, 17.7 British Columbia and 16.7 in the Yukon. Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick had the lowest abortion rates of 6 and 6.3 respectively. |
