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Singapore sees abortions rise amid recession

May 1, 2009
AFP

Every night for a week, Mazlinda Majlam had the same nightmare. "It's a silhouette of a baby sitting down, and he will just be looking at me. The baby has no eyes, but he will be looking at me," she said.

The horrifying dreams began in April, the night she returned home from having an abortion -- two months after she was retrenched as a result of Singapore's worst recession in more than 40 years.

The mother of three said "bad economic times" prompted her to terminate the pregnancy and she would not hesitate to have another abortion if necessary.

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