Madrid, Spain, Aug 20, 2007 / 08:36 am
The Institute for Family Policy said this week that abortion has reached such massive levels in Spain that it has become a true epidemic in the country.
According to the statistics analyzed by the IFP, more than 1.1 million abortions have taken place in Spain since the practice was legalized in 1985.
During the last ten years, abortions have almost doubled with an increase of 90.5 percent, making Spain the European country with the greatest increase in the number of abortions, followed by Belgium and Holland.
IFP president Eduardo Hertfelder said 97,000 abortions took place in 2006. “If this trend continues, in 2010 one out of every five pregnancies (125,000 annually) will end in abortion,” he said.