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World Health Organization: Key Messages on Unsafe Abortion

stfuprolife:

stfuprolife:

  1. An estimated 19-20 million unsafe abortions take place every year.  97% of these are in developing countries.

  2. Despite its frequency, unsafe abortion remains one of the most neglected global public health challenges.

  3. An estimated 68,000 women die every year from unsafe abortion, and millions more are injured, many permanently.

  4. Leading causes of death are hemorrhage, infection, and poisoning from substances used to induce abortion. 

  5. Access to modern contraception can reduce but never eliminate the need for abortion. 

  6. Legalisation of abortion is a necessary but insufficient step toward eliminating unsafe abortion. 

  7. When abortion is made legal, safe, and easily accessible, women’s health rapidly improves.  By contrast, women’s health deteriorates when access to safe abortion is made more difficult or illegal.

  8. Legal abortion in developed countries is one of the safest procedures in contemporary practice, with case-fatality rates less than one death per 100,000 procedures. 

  9. Manual vacuum aspiration (a handheld syringe as a suction source) and medical methods of inducing abortion have reduced complications. 

  10. Treating complications of unsafe abortion overwhelms impoverished health-care services and diverts limited resources from other critical health-care programmes. 

  11. The underlying causes of this global pandemic are apathy and disdain for women; they suffer and die because they are not valued.

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*This applies to anyone with a uterus.

Just in case anti-choicers missed this the first time around.


I just used this pdf as a source in an essay for my Religion in America class. Be warned, it has a really gross picture of how horribly wrong unsafe abortions can turn out. On the other hand, I think every bullshit pro-lifer who posts pictures of “aborted fetuses” should have to stare at it for a good, long time.

(Source: stfuprolifers, via stfuprolifers)

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    No SRS- unsafe abortions limit the freedom and health of people who can get pregnant, sometimes causing death.
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