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So, if we stopped abortion all together and all of those 46 million babies were born healthy, we'd have an extra billion people walking around in 25 years? Crazy. We'd have an extra 35 million just in the US....
Actually, probably not.
The "average" is one per woman, and there are millions of women who would not have an abortion under any circumstance. Therefore, some women have more than one abortion. If they had the first child, it is possible that a good percentage of them would either take better precautions against pregnancy in the future. Certainly, some of these women would have baby after baby, and certainly many do, but I'm guessing that the numbers would not be as high.
The "average" is one per woman, and there are millions of women who would not have an abortion under any circumstance. Therefore, some women have more than one abortion. If they had the first child, it is possible that a good percentage of them would either take better precautions against pregnancy in the future. Certainly, some of these women would have baby after baby, and certainly many do, but I'm guessing that the numbers would not be as high.
For a time in the old Soviet Union, the average woman had seven abortions in her lifetime, because the government believed the pill was dangerous, the men refused to wear condoms ("they didn't feel good"), and abortion was free.
Wow, considering that fact, I'm surprised I'm even here. My great-grandparents were russian, and my grandmother was born here sometime after 1910 (my own mother was born in 1942, so I guesstimated Grammy's birth year). Do you have any information on the time period of all this?
Sorry, uber interested in reproductive rights/issues, especially as it pertains to my family tree! I guess I could just wikipedia it all...
The statistic was given in a book I read on Russian women about twenty-five years ago. It was in the college library here. If and when I get a moment, I'll see if it's still here. I googled but didn't ring up a title that sounded familiar.
Also, has anyone seen this?
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