Politics and Society
| Morgunblaðið
| Fri 28 Apr 2017
| 14.00 GMT
Record number of abortions in Iceland
Half of the women who have abortions in Iceland take an abortive pill. mbl.is/Rósa Braga
Last year, 2016, a record number of abortions took place in Iceland with a total of 1.021 abortions. This is the first time that the number of abortions in one year surpasses a thousand.
In 2016, 13 abortions were made to every 1000 women of a fertile age. In comparison, that figure is 13.3 in other Nordic countries in 2015.
