Survey Shows that 20% of Korean Women Have Had an Abortion
For something that is technically illegal in South Korea, it is widely practiced:
Around 20 percent of Korean women who get pregnant have abortions, according to a government survey, Thursday.
Korea Times
The Korea Institute of Health and Social Affairs (KIHASA) announced the result of the survey, which it conducted on behalf of the Ministry of Health and Welfare on 10,000 women aged between 15 and 44 online from September to October.
It was the third government survey on abortion, an illegal practice here ― except in certain life-threatening circumstances and in the cases of rape and incest ― but widely conducted secretly. Previous surveys were conducted in 2005 and 2010.
You can read more at the link, but to put this into perspective, this 20% number is very similar to the United States where it is estimated that 25% of women will have had an abortion by age 45.
“… this 20% number is very similar to the United States where it is estimated that 25% of women will have had an abortion by age 45.”
That’s a comparison of two very different statements. The Korea Times article says, “Around 20 percent of Korean women who get pregnant have abortions, …”
Joe C
Maybe I’m slow today (I’m sure of it in fact)….
But doesn’t a woman have to be pregnant to get an abortion?
@Liz
Maybe that’s how it was intended to be interpreted, but with all the hubbub about fake news, I’m probably extra sensitive about loose statements of facts. When I read “25% of women will have had an abortion”, without any other qualifiers I understand that to mean 25% of ALL women will have had an abortion.
The linked Washington Post article does not qualify their statistic for the subset of women who are pregnant. The second line of the article plainly states “The procedure continues to be common: 1 in 4 women will have an abortion by 45”
Mixed feelings about abortion, here.
On one hand, I get to kill a baby.
But one the other, I have to see a woman get a choice.
Not all dilemmas solve themselves.
Beyond that, what’s up with NY abortion-until-birth law?
There is a really blurry line between freshly fertilized egg and bouncing baby… so it is understandable there is disagreement where the cutoff should be…
…but moving that limit to birth seems… rather… evil… like a product of a sick culture divorced from reality and chasing the extremes of their ideology as if absolutes and binary choices are the only way to claim victory over imagined enemies.
What kind of human can possibly sacrifice innocent babies at the alter of their extreme liberalism that openly coddles criminals and other bad-intentioned adults at every opportunity?
Dear God, time to dust off those thunderbolts.
CH, look up Molech. (Insert sad face here.)
Liberals around the world celebrate their misogyny by getting wimmin pregnant and killing off their spawn before needing to marry the girl or make child support payments. And they also, at least in the US, kill off a disproportionate number of unborn girls, because, in their twisted reasoning, having a son is much better…
Taxpayers foot the bill for the abortions. Planned Parenthood also makes a lot of cash by selling the “spare parts.”
And yes, abortions are performed by some unscrupulous doctors and clinics on teens who are not really pregnant. There are court cases in Texas where a couple of folks were actually sent to prison.
And there have been something over 60 Million unborn children legally killed since Roe v. Wade. That’s in the same league with Stalin and Mao.
@JoeC, I agree the stat is not perfect but it is the closest thing I could find to provide a comparison.
So called “ back alley abortions” were performed long before Roe v Wade. My mother said many girls in the 50s-60s knew where to go if they “got into trouble” They would go visit “family” in another city and go where a doctor performed quiet abortion under the guise of a routine pelvic exam. The ones that couldn’t go that far might “visit a sick aunt” for few months and spend time in a home for unwed mothers where the child was adopted at birth.
OK, I’m the first person to admit my math skills suck, but I’m really not understanding.
The linked article says that abortions in the U.S. have fallen from 19.4 per 1000 to 14.6 per 1000
OK, 14.6/1000 reduces to 1.46/100, or 1.46%.
How does 1.46% become 25%?
@MTB Rider
The 19.4 per 1000 to 14.6 per 1000 numbers are measures of the abortion rates in the years 2008 and 2014, respectively. Those are annual rates used to show the change between those years. The 25% is a measure of something else; the percentage of women who will have had an abortion in their childbearing ages (15 to 45).
The Washington Post article links to a source article where it says, “If the 2014 age-specific abortion rates prevail, 24% of women aged 15 to 44 years in that year will have an abortion by age 45 years.”
The Compost lies frequently. In this case, they take the number of abortions and give a fake statistic based on women having only one. That plainly ain’t so, as several celebrities have bragged of having three or more. It’s all part of their plan to try to make people think killing a child is nuthin’…
Also left out of the stats is the fact that as many as 250 (also depends on who is counting) women a year die from abortions done at “modern” clinics. Which, by the way, can’t treat them if there’s an issue and just drop them off at the nearest emergency room. Texas tried ro require clinics to have a doctor on staff who had admitting privileges–and Democrat-appointed judges called it unconstitutional.
“If the 2014 age-specific abortion rates prevail, 24% of women aged 15 to 44 years in that year will have an abortion by age 45 years.”
I agree with Setnaffa. That is a false statistic designed to normalize abortion.
It (intentionally) falsely presumes many women will have only one abortion instead of the reality that a smaller pool of women have multiple abortions.
It’s like saying I got a BJ from a whore last night and “if this trend continues” all women will be whores in 21 million years so we can only conclude your mom is a whore.
CH, to be fair, that what we already think about the “mothers” at Jeff Bezos’ paper…
Looks like the protest worked
JoeC, every tyrant legalizes infanticide. In fact, it was policy for “undesirables” to be forced to abort in Germany under the Austrian Corporal and is current policy in PRC.
Not too much to celebrate unless one worships death.
My guess is the ultrasound showed that it was a girl. It is very common in oriental societies. Especially China.