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Study Says Making Abortions Illegal Will Lead to Increase
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I’ve written before about my personal ambivalence regarding abortion, yet I still side firmly with the pro-choice movement and a new study perfectly illustrates why.
As Jezebel reports, if you’re pro-life, you may want abortions to remain legal because, as a new study shows, if you want women to have more abortions, just make them illegal.
The report, published in The Lancet, found that the number of abortions performed worldwide has decreased in the past decade.
It also found abortion rates highest in countries that limit contraception and have tight restrictions on abortion. Not only that, but nearly half of all abortions in the world are unsafe. Half! According to CBS, with 12 abortions per 1,000 women, abortion rates are the lowest in Western Europe and highest in Eastern Euopre at 43 per 1,000. The rate in North America is 19 per 1,000.
As mentioned, the report found a link between higher abortion rates and regions, like Latin America and Africa, with the most restrictive abortion policies It’s those countries in which 95 to 97 percent of abortions are unsafe.
Jezebel says it better than I can:
The evil, godless, socialists with their low birth rates and secular public spaces, the European nightmare, actually produces fewer abortions than all those countries that are doing what God/The Pope want by limiting women’s contraceptive options? And making abortions illegal isn’t actually saving any babies at all? What, exactly, do abortion-restricting laws do for women?
Well, abortion restrictions certainly help injure women. The researchers’ report estimates that 47,000 women die of abortion-related complications per year, and another 8.5 million experience non-fatal but serious complications.
Point is, according to this study, making abortions illegal isn’t saving anyone, INCLUDING BABIES. Not only does making abortions illegal apparently lead to more abortions, but it hurts women. Former Babble writer and staunch Christian, Katae Tietje understood as she illustrates in How I Can Hate Abortion and Not Want It Illegal.
There you have it. A similar opinion on abortion from two women who are virtually opposite in every way of thinking. What are your thoughts?
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Brandy commented on Jan 20 12 at 12:00 pmInteresting. So women will still go through with an illegal abortion even if may injure or kill them? What does that say about the desperation for women to have an abortion?
While abortion is deplorable because it’s termination of a life, it isn’t the problem. The problem is a moral one. “I don’t care about the life inside me. I don’t want to carry it to term and put it up for adoption. It’s just like a tumor, and you don’t have a problem cutting out a tumor.”
There are always option besides terminating a life. There is simply no way to justify an abortion without making it about “me.”
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jeneria commented on Jan 20 12 at 6:05 pmJust read about Romania in the 60′s and onward and then tell me that denying birth control, sex education, safe abortions, and access to places like Planned Parenthood is a bad thing. http://www.ceausescu.org/ceausescu_texts/overplanned_parenthood.htm
Listen to some of the current political rhetoric revolving around women’s and reproductive rights and tell me you don’t hear echoes of Ceausescu’s insanity.
jeneria commented on Jan 20 12 at 7:26 pmCrap. Mine is supposed to read “Just read about Romania in the 60′s and onward and then tell me that denying birth control, sex education, safe abortions, and access to places like Planned Parenthood is a good thing.” Pencils have erasers, why can’t all commenting mechanisms have an edit feature?
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