Prenatal discrimination based on gender typically target girls. Sex selection abortion is used to prevent the birth of a child of an undesired sex: abortion is chosen solely on the basis of the unborn baby's gender. The victims of these abortions are overwhelmingly female. Sex-selection abortion was once thought confined to certain parts of Asia. It has now spread to other continents and is now practiced here in the United States of America and even in Georgia. No nation committed to...
Abortion Methods & Risks
The type of abortion procedure used in elective pregnancy termination is primarily determined by how far a woman is into pregnancy.
Morning After Pill
Many times women panic after having unprotected sex and rush to take the morning-after pill (Plan B One Step® or Next Choice®).
Georgia Abortion Statistics
Georgia has 159 counties, with each individually reporting how many abortions were performed there each year. The counties report to the Department of Public Health (DPH), who releases the statistics through their Online Analytical Statistical Information System (OASIS). We then take that data and compile it for each reporting year in an excel sheet to make reviewing the statistics a bit easier. Since 2011, DPH has only reported in-state abortion numbers - meaning that residents from other...
What is Abortion?
The type of abortion procedure used in elective pregnancy termination is primarily determined by how far a woman is into pregnancy.
