Teenager abortions on the rise Thousands of teenage girls in Beijing have abortions each year, according to teenage sex clinics. Sources with Beijing Tian'an Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the first in the capital to open a hotline for pregnant teenagers, said more than 100 teenage girls received abortions during the first three months of the year. Of nearly 5,000 phone calls from teenagers, seven to eight percent are from unmarried girls asking about abortion. The proportion was only about five percent last year, said Deng Jun, a doctor with the teenager counseling service of Beijing No.2 Hospital. The total number of teenage abortions in the capital is not known. "Girls who have abortions are considerably younger. Most of them are junior middle school students aged 14 to 15," said Deng, adding the youngest patient to come for an abortion was a 13-year-old and some girls had abortions many times. "Two years ago, teenage pregnancy mainly happened to college and senior high school students," he said. The number of abortions peaks during the Spring Festival, May Day or National Day holidays and in the final term of the academic year, Deng said, adding that sex education at school and in the family is wholly inadequate with young people nowadays having their first sexual experiences at a much earlier age. Sex education has always been a low priority in schools, and parents are often reluctant to talk about the still-taboo issue. A survey conducted by Professor Huo Jinzhi from the medical school of Suzhou University showed 4.6 percent of junior middle school students had had sex compared with 4.2 percent in senior high schools. In September 2004, the country for the first time included sex and reproduction knowledge in the formal school curriculum. (Xinhua)

據(jù)青少年性生理門診介紹，北京每年有數(shù)千名少女墮胎。 據(jù)首家開通早孕青少年熱線的北京天安中醫(yī)院的有關(guān)人士介紹，今年第一個(gè)季度有100多名未成年少女來醫(yī)院墮胎。 在近5000個(gè)青少年打來的熱線電話中，7%至8%是未婚女孩咨詢墮胎事宜的。北京市第二醫(yī)院青少年咨詢中心的醫(yī)生鄧俊說，去年的這一比例僅為5%。 但目前北京市青少年墮胎的總數(shù)還未統(tǒng)計(jì)出來。 鄧醫(yī)生說：“如今墮胎的女孩年紀(jì)比以往要小得多。其中大多數(shù)還是十四五歲的中學(xué)生。”他說最小的只有13歲，還有一些女孩已經(jīng)多次墮胎。 “兩年前，早孕主要集中在大學(xué)生和高中生這兩大人群。” 鄧醫(yī)生說，每年的春節(jié)，五一、國慶長假和每學(xué)年的下半學(xué)期是墮胎的高峰期。他說，學(xué)校和家庭的性教育嚴(yán)重不足，現(xiàn)在的年輕人發(fā)生第一次性行為的年齡提前了很多。 性教育一直是學(xué)校的一個(gè)薄弱環(huán)節(jié)，家長們也常常羞于與孩子們討論這個(gè)仍被視為禁忌的話題。 蘇州大學(xué)醫(yī)學(xué)院的霍金之教授開展的一項(xiàng)調(diào)查顯示，4.6%的初中生有過性行為，而高中生的這一比例為4.2%。 2004年9月，我國首次將性常識(shí)和生殖知識(shí)納入學(xué)校課程范圍。 （英語點(diǎn)津姍姍編輯）