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A Stanford University study found that abortion rates actually increased in countries most affected by the global gag rule during the Bush era.
Over the last few decades, many developing countries – such as Colombia, Nepal, Ethiopia, and Mozambique – have liberalized their abortion laws to save women’s lives and to reduce the costs to their health budgets of treating injuries caused by unsafe abortions.
Abortion is already highly restricted in Nigeria, and the few abortion providers available face substantial risks.
With unsafe abortion a major cause of maternal mortality, particularly among adolescents and young women, the services EVA provides could not be more important.
Every day, 830 women die during childbirth and pregnancy, and each year, 6.9 million women are treated for complications from unsafe abortion, almost all of them in developing countries.
Moreover, the Trump administration has expanded the “Mexico City Policy,” also known as the “global gag rule,” which forbids organizations that receive US funding from providing information or referrals for abortion, even in countries where abortion is legal.
To understand the danger this poses to women, consider Texas, which slashed funding to Planned Parenthood in 2011 as part of an ideological campaign against contraception and abortion.
In Poland, for example, the far-right Law and Justice (PiS) government has already tried to ban abortion, even in cases where the mother’s life is in danger.
Trump has revealed a profound lack of understanding of complex policy matters: national security, foreign affairs, immigration, taxation, economic inequality, health care, education, the environment, trade, abortion, religious rights, free expression, and much else.
Her ties to Brazil’s huge evangelical churches, and her unwillingness to break with them on issues such as abortion, same-sex marriage, and drug policy, alienate many voters.
This possibility highlights the weakness of the argument that abortion, too, is wrong because it destroys a genetically unique human being.
By this reasoning, a woman who finds herself pregnant at an inconvenient time could have an abortion, as long as she preserves a single cell from the fetus to ensure that its unique genetic potential is preserved.
Perhaps the assumption is that, as opponents of abortion sometimes say, the aborted fetus had the genetic potential to become a Beethoven or an Einstein.
But then Bellamy stretches liberalism too far, saying that a similar "peace" can be achieved in debates over even bitterly divisive subjects like abortion.
And the subsequent fevered discussions about Trump’s core beliefs – maybe he was a crypto-Democrat, who had, after all, donated to Democratic candidates at one time and sympathized with Democratic positions (such as on abortion) – missed the point.
Making matters worse, in most Latin American countries affected by Zika, abortion is illegal, or permitted only in exceptional situations.
But abortion politics intervened, as Republican lawmakers, leading a congressional hearing on the Zika outbreak, made the funding conditional on anti-abortion policies in recipient countries.
Advocacy groups in Brazil, for example, are already pushing for such an outcome, submitting legal cases to the Supreme Court to secure greater reproductive rights for women, including the right to safe and legal abortion.
Those cases tend to lean on the 1988 National Constitution, which guarantees the right to abortion in case of rape, danger to the mother’s life, or anencephaly, another birth defect involving the brain.
And in 2016, Poland’s right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) government faced mass demonstrations in response to many of its policies, including measures aimed at banning abortion and limiting the independence of the Constitutional Court.
They define their religion as moderate and liberal, with many upholding gay rights and abortion, both anathema to evangelical Christians.
That is how numerous referendum outcomes – in France, Ireland, Denmark, the Netherlands, Italy, and Greece – have been reversed, even when deeply emotional issues, such as abortion and divorce, were involved.
They could well prefer this option to natural conception and the prospect of therapeutic abortion following a conventional prenatal genetic diagnosis.
In reality, John Paul II was called “conservative” because he was against abortion and some other progressive ideas.
But if you want a Pope who is for abortion, then you want a different Church.
Liberalism is beginning to mean being permissive, relativist, amoral, homosexual, pedophiliac; and liberals are portrayed as proponents of pornography, abortion, and free love.
Abortion ethics is of little help, although the opponents are often but not always the same.
Clearly, it is legitimate to interrogate a future Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) about his views on abortion.
Before last year’s parliamentary election in Poland, the far-right organization Ordo Iuris had proposed a blanket ban on abortion, one that would go beyond Poland’s current legislation, already among the most restrictive in Europe, by forcing women to give birth even in cases of rape, incest, health risks, and serious fetal defects.
But, at the same time, another legislative proposal was put forward to liberalize abortion laws, introduce sex education into schools, and guarantee insurance coverage of contraceptives.
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