All-Time-Low Teen Birth Rate Figures Tainted With Blood
OTTAWA, Oct 24 (LSN.ca) – Statistics Canada released a report on Teenage Pregnancy Friday which noted that for the first time, statistics are showing that Canadian pregnant teens aged 15-19 aborted most of their babies. The report says that “in 1997, for the first time, the percentage of teenage pregnancies ending in abortion (50.3%) surpassed that of live births (46.8%). The remaining 2.9% of pregnancies ended in a miscarriage or stillbirth.” Thus the news that the number of births and the birth rate of teens reached an “at all-time low” in 1997 is severely tainted – more than half of the children conceived by teens were killed by abortion.
Trends at the national level were driven by patterns in the three most populous provinces – Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia – where the majority of teenage pregnancies were aborted in 1997. Among the provinces and territories, 1997 abortion rates were highest in Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Ontario, and lowest in Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick.
For the full Statistics Canada report see: https://www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/001020/d001020b.htm