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Women in north Italy to be paid ‘a fee’ for not aborting a pregnancy

Pregnant women in north Italy who are economically burdened will be offered up to 4,500 euros to not abort their pregnancy.
Roberto Formigoni, regional president of Lombardy in north Italy, announced a scheme to help dissuade women in poor economic circumstances from aborting their pregnancy.
“No women need to abort now in Lombardy for financial reasons,” said [...]

Study: Canada’s teen pregnancy rates falling rapidly

A new study indicates that among countries like the US, England and Sweden, Canada has seen the most progress in lowering teenage pregnancy rates.
Canada has one of the biggest declines in teenage pregnancy rates around, according to a recently published study by the Sex Information and Education Council of Canada.
The SIECC looked at the number [...]

Unplanned pregnancy growing issue for women over 35

Unplanned pregnancy is a growing problem for women over the age of 35, many who believe that they’re too old to conceive.
The U.K.’s sexual health charity Family Planning Association (FPA) has announced a new campaign called “Conceivable?” to remind women that contraception is needed until a year or two after menopause.
This week the campaign, as [...]

Official numbers reveal UK girls pregnant at 10

Official numbers out of the UK reveal that girls as young as 10 are getting pregnant.
The U.K.’s newspaper The Sun has revealed that in the last eight years, at least 15 girls aged 10 and 39 girls aged 11 became pregnant in England and Wales.
The Sun received its data through a Freedom of Information request, [...]

Department of Health: more than 5,000 women under 20 had repeat abortions in 2008

The Department of Health has released statistics for 2008 that provide a revealing look at repeat abortions in the UK.
Health ministers in the U.K. have received new 2008 statistics from the Department of Health that reveal a reported 5,218 instances of repeat abortion among women under the age of 20. Additionally, 15,029 instances of repeat [...]

Britain climbs to top of Europe’s abortion list

Britain has taken the top spot with the highest number of reported abortions in Europe in 2007.
Sifting through data provided by Eurostat, Norway-based Institute for Family Policies has found that Britain ranked at the top of the European abortion list for 2007, overtaking France, a country with nearly six million more people.
As teenage pregnancy rates [...]

New Oklahoma abortion laws seek understanding

Proponents of two new abortion laws in Oklahoma say they want to understand why women seek an abortion, and they want to provide women with as much information as possible before making a decision which is irrevocable.
“Do they feel they have no other choice?  Is it financial?  What are the reasons that lead up to [...]

Doctor guilty of poisoning his mistress ‘will never see’ the baby vows mother

Bella Prowse tells her story about what went wrong with Dr. Edward Erin and how she came to be poisoned by him.
“I look at my son—so bright and so beautiful,” said Bella Prowse, “but for all I know he is a ticking time bomb. I will never know how much of those drugs I ingested, [...]

Pregnancy and Abortion Rates Decline in U.S.

A new report from the CDC states that pregnancy and abortion rates declined in the United States between 1990 and 2005.
The CDC started tracking pregnancy numbers in 1976.  The pregnancy rate for 2005 is close to the 1976 rate.  CDC reports that in 2005 there were an estimated 6.4 million pregnancies in the U.S.  That [...]

17 of 19 Pregnancies Terminated by Abortion Addict

Irene Vilar calls herself an “abortion addict”, claiming to have terminated 15 pregnancies in 17 years.  Two daughters survive the addiction according to a report from The Los Angeles Times.
The story begins when Vilar became involved with Pedro Cuperman, a professor of Latin American literature.  They met at Syracuse University when she was 16 and [...]

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