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Re: Multiple abortions
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Originally Posted by Osem
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7306246.stm
Apparently some 30 teenage girls a week are attending clinics for their 2nd or even 3rd abortions 
Surely this somewhat flies in the face of persistent claims by certain pressure groups that abortions aren't being used as a method of contraception and are always taken seriously by women.
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Whilst I agree that abortion should not be seen as an alternative to contraception, nothing in the article quoted supports your first sentence.
It states
The statistics, for 2006, showed nearly 15,000 women were having their third or more abortion, while 54 of those had terminated eight or more pregnancies
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And of the 54 who had had eight or more abortions, 21 of them were under the age of 30.
In fact, the last but one paragraphs state
She said the figures suggested that most women having repeat abortions fell pregnant as "a result of contraceptive failure", having "completed their family, rather than any recklessness". "The longer you are sexually active, the more likely you are to have an unwanted pregnancy or experience contraceptive failure."
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