If we collect the blog posts in which we have given the figures on abortion in Spain in recent years we can see how each year they are increasing.
In 2005, 92,000 women were aborted, a figure that had already increased by 8% compared to the previous year, in 2006 101,592 women were aborted and according to the data just released by the Ministry of Health, in 2007 112,138 women have resorted to voluntary abortion, about 10% more than the previous year.
The figures do not stop growing, at the rate of 10,000 more cases every year and it is certainly a fact that should make us reflect. Currently, the rate of 11.49 per 1,000 women, while ten years ago aborted 6 of every 1,000 women, almost half. And that we talk about official figures, that is, women who went to a legal center. The figure increases even more if we consider illegal abortions.
Among other data, they have said that 7 out of 10 women who aborted were between 20 and 34 years old and almost 14% were even younger, which reveals that they also increase abortions in adolescents under 20 years compared to last year.
Madrid is the community that leads the rates, followed by the Balearic Islands, Murcia and Catalonia, while the lowest are in Galicia, Cantabria, Ceuta and Melilla.
Half of the women already had children and more than 30% are repeat offenders, that is, they had previously aborted once, twice or more times. The average profile of the woman who aborts is single, salaried and childless.
Trying to elucidate the possible causes of such an increase we can name a deficient information on contraceptive methods among the youngest, the impossibility of facing the cost of having a child, knowing that the baby comes with some congenital disease such as Down Syndrome, the impossibility of reconcile working life with a child in tow ... The reasons are varied, and in many of them government agencies should intervene in some way to try to reduce the abortion rate.
The question is what is failing so that more and more women decide not to continue with their pregnancy?
