Philip N. Cohen del Huffington Post comenta sobre la potencial "plaga" de abortos en México.

Los escenarios manejados por los anti aborto no son mas que alucinaciones y desproporciones con tal de librar sus cuadraturas mentales, si las matemáticas de Cohen son ciertas, en México no habría más que una tasa promedio de aborto.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/philip-n-cohen/is-there-a-plague-in-mexi_b_453131.html

Whenever people use raw numbers to show the extent of a problem, it's a good idea to pull out your crayon and napkin and see what they're really talking about. It's one thing to say, morally, one abortion is too many. But if you will concede that two abortions is worse than one, then it's worth comparing rates.

So, on the "plague" idea, a rough calculation. Let's say:

• The global abortion rate is 29 per 1,000 women ages 15-44 per year, and
  
• the Mexico City metro area's population of 21 million is 20% of Mexico's population,
  
• and there were 27 million women in the country ages 15-44 in 2008, so
  
• there should be about 5.4 million women ages 15-44 in the Mexico City metro area, and
  
• at average international rates they would be expected to have about 150,000 abortions per year.

Looks to me like they are averaging about 12,000 per year (35,000 from April 2007 to December 2009). Round numbers. So if it's a plague, it's a much-smaller-than-average plague.