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Baby found buried alive in Eunos Crescent

On the one hand, I cannot imagine how someone can abandon a baby.

But on the other hand... I can.

There is something innately wrong with our society if a girl would rather give birth in a stairwell without medical help and bury her newborn baby immediately after, rather than to be found out as being with child.

By the way, Singapore has had over 22% of all pregnancies aborted since 1975.

In most years the figures are higher.

The peak was in 1985 when 23,512 pregnancies were aborted.

That's about 35.6% of pregnancies.

In 2009, there were 600 more births than in 2008.

Yay. Singapore population growing.

But there were still 12,222 abortions in 2008.

Think of it this way. In the year I was born, there were 52,957 live births.

A huge number we've never hit since.

But that very year, there were 20,135 abortions.

For every 5 babies born, 2 were not.

You could say I'm lucky to be alive.

It's not all teen pregnancies of course. In fact, they mostly are not.

60% of abortions are requested by married women.

I still feel something is wrong with our society.

Falling fertility rates.

Misleading term.

Falling birth rates yes, but as a country we're 22% more fertile than we say we are.