MONTREAL, Quebec, May 21, 2014 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A researcher has found that while one in 8 students surveyed at the University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM) has had an abortion, more than a dozen have admitted to having up to four or more abortions. Of female students surveyed, 83 percent were found to be using some form of contraception, including the pill and IUD.
UQAM researcher and sexologist Sylvie Levesque, who presented her findings last week at a Concordia University conference, surprisingly did not say that the high abortion numbers indicate a failure in current approaches to sex-education that emphasizes chemicals and condoms, but instead that students have “unmet needs” for contraception information and access.
“UQAM and other universities have homework to do to provide health services related to contraception,” she told QMI Agency. “We find that students have not really thought about their contraception methods.”
Surveying 2,345 male and female students last fall, Levesque’s team found that 293 (12.5%) admitted to having an abortion. Of those 293, 48 (16.3%) admitted to having two abortions, 20 (7.1%) admitted to having three abortions, and 13 (4.4%) admitted to having four or more abortions.
The full report is scheduled to be published in September.
Georges Buscemi, president of Campagne Québec-Vie, told LifeSiteNews that abortion rates are “sky high” in Quebec because “parents have abdicated their responsibilities.”
“Divorce is rampant and children are basically raised by the impersonal state. Sex becomes a kind of substitute for the attention, affection and tenderness these children lack. They are not having sex with the love of their life, but are fornicating primarily for pleasure and for an emotional high — so of course they are not ready for the consequences of sex, which is *newsflash* …a baby.”
Earlier this month former abortion facility owner Carol Everett told participants at the National March for Life Rose Dinner in Ottawa that sex education was the way the abortion industry created a “market for abortions.”
“How do you sell an abortion? In the US it’s very simple: You do it through sex education,” said Everett who ran a chain of four abortion clinics in Texas from 1977-1983 where an estimated 35,000 unborn children were aborted before her dramatic conversion and departure from the industry.
Buscemi said a society where “promiscuity is the norm and abortion is the ultimate solution” can be blamed on the “collapse of religion.”
“Whereas in English Canada religiosity has declined steadily along with the rest of the West, in Quebec the collapse was sudden and has left much pain in its wake. Once again, evangelization is the key to solving this problem,” he said.