Pro-Life SA
 

Extracts from the latest SA Report to Parliament

Many women in our State are silently suffering from serious emotional and even physical trauma because they have had abortions. The following figures are extracts from the 1997 Report to SA House of Assembly - the official report by the Health Commission to Parliament made annually.

Reasons for termination by gestation (in weeks) 

<14

14-19

20+

Total

Specified medical condition

10

3

1

14

Abnormality of foetus

13

56

38

107

Assault on person

0

0

0

0

Pre-existing psychiatric disorder

5

1

0

6

Mental health of woman

5,206

238

34

5,478

 

 Reasons for termination

Number

Percentage

Specified medical condition 

14 

0.2%

Abnormality of foetus 

10 

1.9%

Assault on person 

0 

0.0%

Mental health of women 

5,484

 97.8%

Physical complications

Number

Percentage

Sepsis 

9 

23.1%

Haemorrhage –intra-operative 

13

 33.3

Haemorrhage – post-operative 

5 

12.8

Perforation of or trauma to uterus  

4

10.3

Other

8

 20.5

 


  

 

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