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Morning-after pill distorts abortion figures in Spain, experts assert

By Alliance Alert

Catholic News Agency: "Spain?s Health Minister, Trinidad Jimenez, attributed the decline in the unofficial number of first-time abortions to the legalization of the morning-after pill. According to the newspaper La Razon, Jimenez said abortions have dropped by more than 3,000 since 2008. Hertfelder called that claim a 'lie.' 'Perhaps there are fewer surgical abortions,' he said, 'but chemical abortions, like those caused by the pill, are on the rise.'"

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on September 16, 2010 (boomark / email).