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The comparable figure for Western Europe, where abortion is generally permitted in most circumstances, is 12.
Almost all of these deaths and injuries could be prevented, the WHO says, by meeting the need for sex education and information about family planning and contraception, and by providing safe, legal induced abortion, as well as follow-up care to prevent or treat medical complications.
Restricting access to legal abortion leads many poor women to seek abortion from unsafe providers.
The legalization of abortion on request in South Africa in 1998 saw abortion-related deaths drop by 91%.
And the development of the drugs misoprostol and mifepristone, which can be provided by pharmacists, makes relatively safe and inexpensive abortion possible in developing countries.
Opponents will respond that abortion is, by its very nature, unsafe – for the fetus.
They point out that abortion kills a unique, living human individual.
Yet “pro-life” groups that picket abortion clinics are rarely seen picketing slaughterhouses.
And the overwhelming opposition to Trump in trend-setting states such as California and New York could encourage their voters to elect legislatures to counteract federal conservatism with progressive state laws on issues ranging from air quality and health care to abortion, treatment of immigrants, and gun control.
These include Ireland’s exclusive right to decide policy on issues such as abortion and corporation tax as well as participation in European security and defense operations.
She was chosen, to borrow the commentators’ jargon, to energize the party base, which comprises hard-liners suspicious of McCain’s lack of enthusiasm for the causes that fire them up, such as creationism and a ban on abortion.
Chen Guangcheng, a blind lawyer – famous for exposing a forced abortion scandal in Shandong – was given a four-year jail term on the dubious charge of “organizing a mob to disturb traffic.”
Ending America’s Global War on Reproductive FreedomJOHANNESBURG – My country liberalized abortion more than two decades ago, but on January 23, 2017, US President Donald Trump essentially took away my right even to write the word.
As a doctor in South Africa, I have provided abortion services for more than a decade.
For young South African women, these texts offer life-saving information about issues related to sexual and reproductive health – including birth control, sexual violence, and our country’s progressive abortion law.
But two days after the American presidential election in November 2016 – and more than two months before Trump’s inauguration – the NGO I was working for halted distribution of a reproductive-health guide because it contained information on South Africa’s constitutionally guaranteed right to an abortion.
The guide has since been reprinted, with all references to abortion deleted.
First introduced in the 1980s and revived by every Republican administration since, the policy blocks American foreign aid to organizations that offer abortion services, counseling, referrals, or advocacy.
Health-care providers receiving USAID money were barred from discussing abortion even with pregnant women who were HIV-positive.
Even when US funding has been restored under Democratic administrations, women in South Africa have struggled to access abortion services.
Local NGOs, together with responsible global partners, must find new support for programs that educate women about their rights and provide access to safe abortion services.
South Africa’s people have decided to enact one of the world’s most liberal abortion laws; politicians 8,000 miles away should not be allowed to reverse their choice.
Almost all of these deaths occur in countries with restrictive abortion laws, which African leaders should consider reforming as a matter of common sense and social justice.
Bush countered with concerns about security against terrorism and cultural populism on issues such as gay marriage and abortion rights.
But a Pew poll taken a week after the election indicated that the category “moral values” encompassed a wide range of issues besides abortion rights and gay marriage.
But on this subject and others - say, family and abortion - religious Muslims in Europe side with conservative Christians.
KMET also receives money from European donors and other sources to provide comprehensive reproductive health services, including abortion counseling.
The global gag rule, officially known as the Mexico City policy, prevents official US funding for development aid from going to non-US organizations that provide any kind of abortion services to women – even information or referrals – regardless of how those services are financed.
Organizations that advocate expanded abortion access in their own countries are also barred from US funding.
This means that, if KMET continues to provide abortion services to women in Kenya, where 30-40% of hospitalizations of women are associated with unsafe abortions, it will lose the funding it needs to perform the similarly lifesaving work of teaching doctors how to handle complications associated with childbirth.
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