Report: Unsafe abortions kill 70,000 annually

http://www.physorg.com/news174734373.html

AP) -- Increased contraceptive use has led to fewer abortions worldwide, but deaths from unsafe abortion remain a severe problem, killing 70,000 women a year, a research institute reported Tuesday in a major global survey.

More than half the deaths, about 38,000, are in sub-Saharan Africa, which was singled out as the region with by far the lowest rates of contraceptive use and the highest rates of unintended pregnancies.

The report, three years in the making, was compiled by the New York-based Guttmacher Institute, which supports abortion rights and is a leading source of data on abortion-related trends. Researchers examined data from individual countries and multinational organizations.

The institute's president, Sharon Camp, said she was heartened by the overall trends since Guttmacher conducted a similar survey in 1999, yet expressed concern about the gap revealed in the new report.

"In almost all developed countries, abortion is safe and legal," she said. "But in much of the developing world, abortion remains highly restricted, and unsafe abortion is common and continues to damage women's health and threaten their survival."

The report calls for further easing of developing nations' abortion laws, a move criticized by Deirdre McQuade, a policy director with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities.

"We need to be much more creative in assisting women with supportive services so they don't need to resort to the unnatural act of abortion," she said.

Guttmacher estimated previously that the number of abortions worldwide fell from 45.5 million in 1995 to 41.6 million in 2003 - the latest year for which global figures were available.

same topic. 70,000, but they're just women dying.....

Good luck.

But they're just fetuses.

That a zygote or fetus has more rights than a woman? What about the men who impregnate women...do you have a penalty in mind for them?

edit: Hidden profile and male...I only wish that you could be pregnant!

Are you proud that there are 40 million abortions per year?

I'm not ashamed of it, I just wish more women had access to birth control so they wouldn't have to have the surgical procedure.

But I figured the mods already had their hands full.

You sure do know how to make an arrival, I love how you just jump right in, damn the torpedoes!

Unfortunately this character is being rather stupid. Must be the same kind of person that never really understands the basics of natural selection but acts like an authority anyway.

BTW, at what point do these zygotes become more than just a collection of cells to you?

5 weeks?

10 weeks?

15 weeks?

Ever?

those are 3 separate questions and I'd like to see what you think.
When for you?
Should an abortion ever be done?
Should an abortion ever be legal?

thank you.

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When do they for you? Should an abortion ever be done, or be legal?

those are 3 separate questions and I'd like to see what you think.
When for you?
Should an abortion ever be done?
Should an abortion ever be legal?

a pregnancy she doesn't want.

The reasons for terminating are diverse and it's a decision best left to the woman.

Ideally birth control would always work rendering abortion obsolete. Ideally access to contraception would be easy. But of course, the world is an imperfect place. So abortion is there as a last resort.

Abortion isn't something to be proud of, but it's nothing to be ashamed of either. It's just a medical tool available for those who choose to use it.

I don't get it.

I AM proud that however many abortions as are desired by women are provided every year.

I am HAPPY that women desirous of this simple medical procedure are able to obtain it when they feel it is needed.

That both sides of this issue found abortions to be a negative thing.

When someone says they're "proud" that abortions occur, then it kind of ends the discussion with me.

Rights are a good thing.

Do we extend them to fetuses?

I mean, when do their rights begin?

Is there a time that you feel comfortable saying they have rights?

Is there a time when they are not just a collection of cells?

Males cannot have opinions about abortion.

Duly noted.

Now, do you have a point, or are you just here to argue?

THEIR bodies suffering gestational diabetes, the possibility of toxic shock, alterations in the body structure, etc., etc, then I kindly suggest that they have no say in the matter.

are YOU willing to endure pregnancy for nine months? the movie "junior" was fiction, you know.

It would be like me asking you if you wouldn't mind going back in the womb and having your body parts torn asunder.

See! It works both ways!

Gee, I bet I can guess where you get your propaganda.

Fail.

But if it makes it easier for you to ignore the science to assuage your conscience, then have at it.

Please, enlighten us with your razor sharp intellect.

I can't get this here but I still dream about it:

Read my sig line for some reassurance.

And boring.

I cut my teeth on pro-death anti-abortion terrorists back in the day, I was hoping you were going to put up a little fight.

maybe I could ship some to you?

I think I may have found a local distributor who can get it for me, yay! I'll have to take you up on your generous offer if it doesn't work out. Magic Hat usually had a beer tent at the outdoor music festivals I attended when I lived in Vermont. Geez, I miss the northeast.

Nope


Hmmmm


Aha, here you go, almost. Too bad it was an ectopic pregnancy and the woman would have died if it wasn't removed.



And finally, a fun page with varied embryos. Which is the human one?
http://www.exploratorium.edu/exhibits/embryo/embryoflas...

Interesting that you stopped at 4 weeks.

Most abortions occur later than that.

tell us, what does a 10 week old fetus look like?

I'm sure you could school a dumb old nurse like uppity, right?

jeepers, must EVERYTHING be a conspiracy?

as the "picture" one of the local woman-hating, pro-forced birthers carries around in front of PP shows?

do you believe the earth is flat? or 6,000 years old?

has changed in all those decades, you are not even remotely original. that goes for all you supposedly do to help women and children--nice fantasy, but none of us on this thread are that gullible.

actually physically affect you?

technically parasites.

by the way, how many of the children that you insist need to be born into families too poor to care for them, into situations of hell, are YOU PERSONALLY willing to support until graduation from college.

one of the many things that pisses me off about the woman-hating, pro-forced birthers is the fact that THEY don't pay for the situations they force on others. if I had my way, each and every time one of those zealots scares a woman out of having an abortion, that person immediately needs to sign a statement of financial responsibility for the woman's prenatal care, and then for her and the child until that child has graduated college.
let's see them put their money where their sol-called morality is.

When do you think they should?

That's when it becomes an independent life-form.

Until then, it's part of the mother's body.

A fetus is nothing but a parasite!

And you wonder why people hold pro-death proponents in contempt.

And the majority of DUers hold you and your kind in contempt.

Where I come from, it's called "pro-reproductive rights".

And scientifically speaking, a fetus IS a parasite. It survives attached to a host body and draws nutrients from it--and if the host dies, the fetus dies.

good, don't let the door hit you on the ass on the way out.

I'll think I'll stick around.

Thanks anyway.

carries a few extremely minimal risks. Those very minimal risks don't even come close to the risk a normal pregnancy poses to a woman. Pregnancy is a risk that a woman should never be asked to take unwillingly. Obviously a prevention of pregnancy is preferable but yes, I am PROUD that we are able to offer women a simple and safe medical procedure when pregnancy is contraindicated or undesired.

saves lives, and protects families.

You forgot that one.

Fly your flag over that for awhile.

Back atcha, Judgy McJudgeface.

Interesting word choice.

If that's what you need to justify your support of abortion, then have at it.

What abortion really does is end life.

"life" begins at conception.

And not in a metaphysical way.

But while we're talking about medicine, do you actually know what the
"procedure" is?

Do you have any idea what it is that you are advocating?

Or do you just avoid the issue altogether?

In an unfunny kinda way.

We'll chalk you up as someone who just ignores the issue.

That's about all I need to know about your position on abortion.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

Really - I'd like to know.

n/t

If I thought one was responsible for "baby-killin'", I would most certainly want them punished. How does that selective morality work?

I don't subscribe to one side or the other.

You can call it "selective morality" if you wish.

I tend to side with pragmatism.

But you should be aware that you are also being "selectively moral."

Except in your world, you only think of the woman, and totally disregard the other living entity.

Are you a medical professional? Have you HAD or participated in a termination of a pregnancy? Did you go to medical school? Or are you basing your intimate knowledge on what the Catholic Church has taught you on the matter? Do you have a uterus?

Your single journal entry tell me all I need to know about your stance on the matter.

Then I don't have to suffer through conversing with you anymore.

You are as tolerant as those ass wipes at Free Republic.

Congratulations on that.

They are the haploid, unicellular stage of the animal life cycle, each sperm and egg is a genetically unique individual. So I guess you are a mass murderer every time you jerk off.

Let's stick with science, avoiding any religious or metaphysical dancing on the head of a pin.

Ask any developmental biologist when mammalian life begins.

He or she will tell you that mammalian life occurs when the sperm from the father unites with the egg of the mother.

Mammalian life is a continuous process of development. It starts with fertilization and ends at death.