China performs about 13 million abortions every year, mostly for single young women who experts say know little about contraception, state media said on Thursday in a rare disclosure of sensitive family planning statistics.
The China Daily newspaper said the real number of abortions is believed to be even higher since the 13 million accounts for procedures in hospitals but many more are known to be carried out in unregistered rural clinics. Also, about 10 million abortion pills are sold every year in China, the paper said.
It quoted Wu Shangchun, a government official with the National Population and Family Planning Commission, as saying that nearly half of the women seeking abortions in China had used no form of contraception.
About 1.2 million women have abortions each year in the United States, which has a population of just more than 300 million people
The government says its family planning controls since the 1970s - including contraception, sterilization and abortion procedures - have prevented an additional 400 million births in the world's most populous country of 1.3 billion
Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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