Foreign women are heading to Sweden for abortions, it has been revealed.<\/p>\n
Women are choosing Sweden because gender-based abortion<\/a> is legal there; this means couples can abort a baby if it is not the gender they want. Women can abort babies within the first 18 weeks of the pregnancy<\/a> and may choose to do so because of the gender of the unborn baby; doctors say that most women who decide to abort a baby based on its gender already have a number of sons and daughters and want a baby of a different sex.<\/p>\n Sweden is a particularly popular destination for women who already have daughters and are pregnant with another girl; they choose to have an abortion because they want a boy. In many countries, such as Turkey, it is still considered more important to have sons rather than daughters.<\/p>\n Research also suggests that women from Norway are making the short trip across the border to have abortions in Sweden; abortion is legal within the first 12 weeks in Norway but gender-based abortion is illegal.<\/p>\n Abortion was legalised in Sweden in 1975 and around 30,000 abortions are carried out in the country every year; there are currently no figures available to determine how many of those are carried out on foreign women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Foreign women are heading to Sweden for abortions, it has been revealed. Women are choosing Sweden because gender-based abortion is legal there; this means couples can abort a baby if it is not the gender they want. Women can abort babies within the first 18 weeks of the pregnancy and may choose to do so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":888008809,"featured_media":5223,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2254,309,310,308],"class_list":["post-384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abortion","tag-abortion","tag-gender","tag-legal","tag-sweden"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t