Of the total number of abortions, most (68.0 ) are performed in the first trimester of pregnancy (induced abortions).

The high rate of deaths from failed abortions was an argument for the Government not to restrict safe abortions.

The number of illegal abortions is unknown.

Medically advised abortions take place in government hospitals.

The number of repetitive abortions, however, has remained the same 68 of abortion patients in 1996 2001 had already had one or more abortions previously.

Number of abortions per 1,000 women aged 15 49

The total number of abortions and legally induced abortions per 1000 women in fertile age has decreased by more than a half in the past 10 years.

Although there is undoubtedly an economic disparity between India and China, their populations are roughly equal. So it is reasonable to estimate that as many as half of China s abortions some 6.5 million registered surgical abortions, plus untold numbers of drug induced or unregistered abortions, per year are attributable to the one child policy.

She would welcome information on unsafe abortions and whether their numbers were being monitored.

The report claimed that family planning activities were relatively well developed was abortion still illegal, and if so what was the rate of unsafe abortions and what services were provided for the management of the health problems resulting from unsafe abortions?

In the regular health related statistical reporting there do not exist data on the number of abortions.

Table 5.4 Ratio of abortions and menstrual regulation in urban and rural areas from 1998 to 2002 ( )

What kinds of services were available free of charge to treat the health consequences of unsafe abortions?

The Committee notes with satisfaction the legal measures enacted to prohibit selective abortions and infanticide in mainland China.

The National Health and Family Planning Commission, the government agency responsible for enforcing the one child policy, reports an even higher figure more than 13 million surgical abortions each year a figure that does not include abortions induced by drugs or carried out in unregistered private clinics.

The Committee is deeply concerned about reports of forced abortions and forced sterilizations imposed on women, including those belonging to ethnic minority groups, by local officials in the context of the one child policy, and about the high maternal mortality rate as a result of unsafe abortions.

The basic purpose of the Programme is to decrease maternal morbidity and mortality due to abortions performed under unsafe conditions .

Paraguay had one of the highest incarceration rates for women and she wondered how many women had been imprisoned for illegal abortions.

So, some health care units have opted to work on abortions to reduce death and infection risks, sterility, and to reduce internment time.

Abortions in Tajikistan are permitted and are legal. Abortion is regarded as unlawful when it is performed outside the walls of a medical facility.

Information on how much contraceptive information was provided to adolescents to reduce teen pregnancy and on the rate of illegal abortions would be welcome.

She stressed that the criminalization of abortion forced women to seek clandestine abortions and prevented them from seeking medical care in case of complications.

In 2003, thanks to more effective contraceptive measures, the number of abortions reduced by 19.84 to 174,505 in comparison with that of the year 2000.

On the other hand, the figures for abortions, teenage pregnancies and teenage mothers have increased over the past few years, especially among ethnic minority girls.

She asked whether the Government had undertaken studies on the incidence of unwanted pregnancies and on the damage to women's health resulting from clandestine abortions.

There should also be greater emphasis on maternal mortality, including the prevention of illegal abortions among unwed teenagers and provision of reproductive health services to all women.

What is in common for women in the reproductive age is the decrease in fertility rate due to frequent intentional abortions, usually the only way of family planning.

The extremely high maternal mortality rate due to unsafe abortions was a serious problem, but the most serious problem was the Government's inaction in the face of it.

The Government was committed to reducing maternal mortality by improving obstetric care and providing assistance for abortions, and was reviewing punitive legislation on the voluntary termination of pregnancy.

The improvements in reproductive health are a key health care strategy in regulating the intervals between births and reducing maternal and infant mortality rates and women's dependence on abortions.

But forced abortions are only the beginning. Indeed, these figures however shocking do not capture the human suffering or the harsh economic consequences brought about by the one child policy.

As a result of the latter case, Samoa's Chief Justice had issued a directive in 2004 urging the Government immediately to consider how abortions should be dealt with in Samoa's laws.

culturally legitimised violence such as honour killings and genital mutilation of girls international trafficking in women sexual violence, forced pregnancies and forced abortions, systematic violence with serious physical and or mental consequences.

It is concerned about the causes of morbidity and mortality in women, particularly the number of deaths due to illegal abortions, and about inadequate family planning services and the low rates of contraceptive use.

Nevertheless it remains concerned that selective abortions and infanticide as well as the abandonment of children, in particular girls and children with disabilities, continue as negative consequences of existing family planning policies and societal attitudes.

Ms. Pimentel, noting that rural women suffered generally from the lack of access to health care services, asked what measures the Government was taking to avoid the health consequences of illegal abortions, especially for rural women.

The Committee is concerned at the lack of information on adolescent health services available in mainland China and the Macau SAR, as well as the high incidence of teenage pregnancies and abortions in the Hong Kong SAR.

The present petition, filed against Canada by author Peter Queenan on behalf of Canadian unborn children, alleges violations of the right to life under article 6 of the Covenant through state funding of abortions, and other violations.

The National Post abortion Care Programme is aimed directly at reducing maternal mortality. It has been in operation since 2004 in 22 of the country's hospitals, where a total of 13,928 women with incomplete abortions have been attended.

Termination of pregnancy for medical indications (2.1 ) and social indications (0.6 ) point indirectly to the limited access of the populace to modern contraceptives. The high percentage of spontaneous abortions (29.2 ) points to the low level of health of women.

On the question of abortion, preventive action by the Government to reduce the huge number of abortions should target not only young women but also middle aged women, and especially men, who also had a responsibility in the matter.

Mr. Roskans (Latvia) observed that research had shown that the vast majority of women who underwent abortions in Latvia were between the ages of 18 and 25 and they therefore had to remain the main target of Government campaigns.

Since abortion was illegal, some babies were being abandoned at birth and women were going abroad to obtain legal abortions, while in a recent case that had come to light, others had sought the services of a backstreet abortionist.

(vi) Continuing violation of the human rights and fundamental freedoms of women, in particular the trafficking of women for the purpose of prostitution or forced marriage and the subjection of women to human smuggling, forced abortions, gender based discrimination and violence

In BiH before the war, in 1990, the number of abortions, as methods of family planning was 66.625 and it almost reached the number of newborns 67.278During the war, this ratio climbs up to 2,5 1 in favor of abortion.