Statistics
In 2005, 15% of all pregnancies in Switzerland were terminated by abortion. The abortion rate was 7 out of 1,000 women resident in the country, or 6 out of 1,000 women aged 15 to 19. 95% of abortions took place within the first trimester, and 50% of the women who had an abortion were aliens.
The Swiss abortion rate dropped from around 12 per thousand in the 1970s, when data first became available, to around 8 in the 1990s. It has remained stable at around 7 to 8 during the 2000s. In 2009 the rate had dropped still further to 6.4 per 1000.
Read more about this topic: Abortion In Switzerland
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