Once again Canada's abortion numbers are up for 2023. I've included 2022 and 2021 below for comparison purposes. Lots of caveats emphasized below in bold. So as usual, the numbers are underreported.
As well we used to get gestational ages of abortions. Not anymore. CIHI stopped reporting them in 2021.
2023 total abortions = 101,553
2022 total abortions = 97,211
2021 total abortions = 87,485
So Mr. Mark Carney, how do you reconcile the slaughter of 101,553 children in the womb and your Catholic faith? I'm having a wee bit of a problem with that Mr. Carney.
(PS, I couldn't find Mark Carney's email address. He's our Prime Minister but there doesn't seem to be an email address for him posted. Why is that?)
n/a: Not applicable because data from other non-hospital settings is not available.Table 1 Number of induced abortions reported in Canada in 2023, by province/territory of hospital or other non-hospital setting*Induced abortion is defined as the medical termination of pregnancy. Equivalent terms include artificial abortion, therapeutic abortion, voluntary termination of pregnancy, elective termination of pregnancy and active termination of pregnancy.† The methodology to report induced abortion volumes is consistent with the enhanced methodology that was introduced in the 2021 report. For 5 provinces — Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Manitoba and British Columbia — total induced abortion volumes were derived by using the total abortion volumes reported to the National Physician Database (NPDB) at CIHI. Volumes for non-hospital settings (e.g., clinics, physician offices) were estimated using the total abortion volumes as described above and subtracting hospital-based abortions (as reported to the Discharge Abstract Database and National Ambulatory Care Reporting System [NACRS]). This estimation approach for non-hospital volumes was required because information on the location where the service is rendered (e.g., clinic, hospital, physician’s office) may not be included in the NPDB data.Table 1 includes induced abortions performed in a hospital or in a non-hospital setting in Canada (numbers are presented by the province/territory in which the abortion was performed). For Quebec, induced abortions with an unknown location or cases outside of Quebec (0.1% of Quebec cases) are grouped under “non-hospital setting.” Induced abortions are not performed in clinics in Nova Scotia, the Yukon, the Northwest Territories or Nunavut; clinic volumes for Prince Edward Island are reported together with hospital-based abortions.Hospitals are mandated by their provincial/territorial ministry of health to report all hospital activity (not limited to abortions); therefore, coverage of abortions performed in Canadian hospitals can be considered complete. However, there is no such legislative requirement for clinics providing abortion services to report their activity (reporting is voluntary). Physician billing data captures clinical activity for publicly insured medical services funded through the provincial/territorial medical care plans. For 2023, clinic data for New Brunswick and Saskatchewan is incomplete. For Quebec’s hospital and non-hospital data, only induced abortions covered by the provincial health insurance plan are included. Hospital data from all other provinces/territories includes all induced abortions performed within their respective jurisdictions. For example, patients with coverage under Quebec’s health insurance plan receiving care in Alberta are reported by Alberta. However, patients with coverage under Alberta’s health insurance plan receiving care in Quebec are not reported (by either Quebec or Alberta).
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