Quote Originally Posted by Seamus Fermanagh
An earlier poster -- Ironside? -- implied that a majority of conceptions do not result in the production of an adult human. I can only speak for the United States, but that is not accurate. Discounting abortion, Doctors estimate that about 1 conception in 3 fails to result in a birth (miscarriage, failure to implant, etc.) A very small percentage die during the birthing process. Another small percentage die from some illness or accident prior to adulthood. While this number is significant, it is not, however, a majority.
Any links on it? My google skills aren't good enough to get anything else than that it's hard to get an accurate estimation and the original source I've red is a few years old.

Still, my original statement stands.

As for abortion information (only to make people having something to debate on and compare). It seems that it's slghtly less abortion in the US compared to Sweden (1,3 million abortions to 4 million births vs 35k and 105k). Sweden is considerbly higher (6-10% higher of total pregnacies) in that category compared to it's Scandinavian neighbours by some reason. The percentage is stable in Sweden, been around that since abortions became legal. It's slightly decreasing in the US.

Going from this link for US info (do you have a bureu that handles handles all kind stastistical information in the US? I miss SCB when I search US info). Facts on Induced Abortion in the United States

Teenage abortions is about the same of the total, 19% in the US, 19,8% in Sweden.

The number of repeated abortions are lower in Sweden 37,3% vs 48%.

The time of abortion also got a noticable difference, 93% of all abortions in Sweden is done before week 11, while it's 78,5% in the US. 18 weeks of free abortion, after that you'll need to

Swedish source here if anyone care (in Swedish) Aborter 2005