How many abortions are performed in Canada?
In 2006 (the most recent year for which statistics are available) – 91,377 abortions were reported. According to Statistics Canada, this number is 90% of the actual number of abortions. The real number should be 101, 530. Participation in the Therapeutic Abortion Survey from which this data is collected is voluntary for private abortion clinics and hospitals. That’s 278 abortions a day or 12 every hour. Only the Alberta clinics have provided detailed records which means that we have only 8,159 detailed records when the total number of abortions in these figures for clinics is 43,991. While the hospitals report more – we still have detailed reports for only 33,371 of the 47,319 abortions performed in hospitals. 54.4% of abortions were undergone by women in the 20-29 range. 21.3% (19,463) of the women were having their second abortion. 10.5 (9,595) of the women were having their third abortion. The rate of abortion per 100 live births in total was 25.7.
