Chinanews, Beijing, Mar. 27 – In China, about 13 million women take induced abortion every year and repeated abortion has caused many women to suffer from physical health problems. On weekends and holidays, clinic rooms in hospitals are filled with women waiting to take an operation, most being female students or young women, the Beijing Youth Daily reported.

 

Information shows that in China, the annual average abortion rate is 2.93%, covering women aged 13-48, mostly 20-29. The abortion rate in urban areas is higher than that in rural areas and many women have taken such operation several times, making them become a high-risk group. One woman has reportedly taken induced abortion 15 times. According to a recent survey that covered 8,846 women who took abortion in ten hospitals in Beijing, 41.54% of them took the surgery that involved some great risks. Among this group of people, 35.97% had taken abortion twice in half a year and 17.7% of them had taken abortion more than three times in half a year.

 

It is said that repeated abortions will cause great damage to women’s physical and psychological health. Related research shows that 84% of the women who take abortion will suffer from some kind of psychological pressure. For unmarried women, their psychological problem will be even more serious than married women.

 

Women get pregnant either because they don’t take any preventive measures before sex, or the preventive measures end in failure, or because of some medical reasons, with the former two becoming the major causes for pregnancy. Among all the unmarried women who take abortion, 78.6% do not take any preventive measures. And if they take abortion, they are even more likely to get pregnant in future, experts say.