Of that 300 are in teens and most are sexually transmitted. The rates in the two biggest provinces, Ontario and Quebec, are 20.6 and 18.3 respectively. Only 0.3 percent occur after 20 weeks, the point at which, with modern medical procedures, a fetus has a chance of surviving outside the womb. More than 96 percent of abortions are performed by the so-called suction method, in which a Doctor inserts a plastic tube into the dilated cervix and removes the contents of the uterus. Surgery is used in 2.1 percent of cases, prostaglandin gel in 1 percent and saline solution in 0.6 percent.
Patients usually wait about two weeks for an appointment and walk out of the clinic within an hour.
Both sides of the debate say the increase is a cruel legacy of the past recession and free standing abortion clinics.