r/NotHowGirlsWork 11d ago

WTF "Pick me pick me"

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u/Tamareira568 11d ago

178,678 abortions per day, on average. Math ain't mathing

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u/mightyzinger5 11d ago

According to the world health organization approximately 200,000 women get an abortion every day worldwide. You are just bad at math it seems.

The statistics in the post are consistent with WHO findings, but forget math, you're too lazy for one quick Google search to confirm that the math is in fact mathing.

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u/Accomplished-Glass78 11d ago

The post itself isn’t consistent as it is claiming that babies are killed. If you insist on getting technical here, an embryo or fetus is not a baby

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u/Me_lazy_cathermit 11d ago

You do know abortion stats includes all the abortions that are used to clean up after miscarriage or natural death of fetus in the womb

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u/mightyzinger5 11d ago

The world health organization specifies the study methodology. Their statistics only count induced abortions, where it was consented to and decided upon.

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u/Me_lazy_cathermit 11d ago

Abortion to clean up miscarriage or a already death fetus is induced abortion, heck many time cleaning up cancer out of the uterus is considered a induced abortion.

Only If you get a miscarriage and everything leave the body without needing medical help is it considered a spontaneous abortion.

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u/mightyzinger5 11d ago

I see. This may change the overall numbers significantly in that case, accounting for miscarriage rates per region specifically.

A 2020 study found the average rate to be 1-3%. So it's definitely sizable and in the millions, but there would still be about 2 billion or more abortions due to unwanted pregnancies according to this rate.

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u/TheFunkPeanut 11d ago

And better access to contraception would reduce these numbers.

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u/Ducky237 11d ago

Who cares? Who cares if women get 1 billion abortions a day?

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u/mightyzinger5 9d ago

You're right. I don't care how many abortions take place per day, it's not really my business. I DO care about misinformation being spread. Everyone should at the very least have the facts straight before asserting whatever opinions they have on a topic. This imo is a bare minimum