Every year, 12,000 foetuses are aborted
in Singapore. Put in context, that’s about
24% of all
Singapore pregnancies every year. And shockingly
enough, about half are carried out by married women.
Doctors say that our high abortion rates are due to not enough
people using contraception, or using them correctly.
According to Dr Beh Suan Tiong, president of the Obstetrical
& Gynaecological Society of Singapore: “Many husbands do not
use condom right from the start of the sexual activity, (they) wait
till they are near ejaculation before they put it on, and that
defeats the purpose.”
Most mums we spoke to were also scared of taking the pill as
they feared side effects. One such mum Lynette Loh, 29, shared,
“I’ve stayed away from birth controls as I’ve seen how it made my
sister balloon in weight and start having acne.
Other mums inaccurately think that birth control pills may be
linked to cancer and others have the misconception that the
intrauterine system makes sexual intercourse uncomfortable and
carries an infection risk.
For such women, it is adviced to at least use natural family
planning, which involves tracking their ovulation by measuring body
temperature and cervical secretions.
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