The number of abortions has decreased in Armenia but there are still many questions connected with them

 

As recently released «Health and Healthcare» Statistical Yearbook of the National Institute of Health informs, only 3640 out of 12019 abortions during 2014 were spontaneous, the rest 8379 were artificial abortions. Only 2212 were perfomed by medical instruction, and 6040 – by women’s will.

 

As specialists insist, during the recent years the number of abortions in Armenia really has been decreased, and this is conditioned by a number of circumstances- decrease of population number, including decrease of births, and awareness increase.

 

What about the question how many women apply for sex-selective abortions, there is no such a statistics for some reasons. Women not always confess the real reason of abortion.

 

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