Sentences with phrase «from illegal abortions»

Despite its illegality, Brazil's Ministry of Health estimates that about 1 million abortions are performed in the country annually, and that about 200,000 women are hospitalized every year from infections, vaginal bleeding, and other complications from illegal abortions.

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«There are some people who benefit from abortion being illegal,» she added.

Planned Parenthood has been mired in controversy since last summer, when videos from an anti-abortion group surfaced alleging the organization engaged in the illegal sale of fetal tissue from abortions.

Most of the countries where abortion is illegal also suffer from widespread poverty and limited access to contraception — huge drivers in the abortion rate.

Two years previously, he arranged and paid for, with what I guess counts as bohemian chivalry, a woman he impregnated to get an abortion (then illegal) from a competent doctor, and in the film we see him do the same for Jean.

You're still trying to compare something that is illegal (stealing from a store), with something that is legal (abortion).

Then let's make abortion illegal, get rid of social service agencies including CPS and just take the kids from the «welfare» moms and house them in work dormatories and as soon as they can walk and understand we can put them to work.

A Gallup poll from earlier this year found that 20 % of Americans want abortion to be illegal in all circumstances, while 25 % of Americans want abortion to be legal in all circumstances.

This includes everything from your past use of illegal substances to any criminal history, past abortions and miscarriages, your psychological stability, financial situation, religious affiliations, and to whether or not you have had or currently have a sexually transmitted disease.

As a male I am not affected by illegal abortions but I support criminalizing unlicensed medical personnel from conducting back - alley abortions.

Amended and tentatively passed by the state Senate in one day in a 27 - 14 vote without any support from state Democrats, the bill would limit insurance coverage for abortions, require doctors to be present for the entire procedure, make gender - selective abortions illegal and require abortion clinics to meet the same licensing standards as surgical centers.

Extremist pro-life activists believe that abortion should be illegal in all cases except where it is medically necessary to save the mother's life (and where there is no hope of saving the child), whereas more moderate pro-lifers would allow exceptions for pregnancies resulting from the rape or incest of the mother.

Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Joseph Kwame Apoya, the Regional Coordinator of Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU) advised females, particularly the adolescents to desist from illegal and unsafe abortion and visit health facilities for expert advice and qualify services whenever they are pregnant.

There really is no argument for making abortion illegal, it's just the last gasp of nonsense from Britain's increasingly irrelevant religious fundamentalists.

The proposal, from an anti-abortion grassroots campaign, is being examined by a parliamentary commission and would make all abortions illegal, even in cases of rape or when the woman's life is at risk.

Early signs suggest the fallout from Zika includes a rise in illegal and unsafe abortions throughout Brazil, Ecuador and Venezuela

The film arrives already garlanded in praise from the Venice Film Festival, where it won the Golden Lion, and earned Imelda Staunton the best actress award for her astonishing portrayal of Vera, the good - hearted housewife and mother who supplements her earnings as a domestic with a secret sideline in illegal abortions.

Her sense of adventure and passion for storytelling has taken her from the back rooms of underground sex clubs in Washington, D.C., to illegal abortion sites in Myanmar.

Large - scale, freestanding environments built out of materials salvaged from junkyards and alleyways survey subjects such as illegal abortion, prostitution, racism and mental illness.

In a letter to Congress today, Planned Parenthood detailed how recent attacks are part of a decade - long pattern of illegal harassment by extremists, whose focus is banning abortion and preventing women from accessing preventive health care at Planned Parenthood health centers.

Preventing women from accessing family planning services doesn't merely deprive them of reproductive agency: Where abortion is illegal or heavily restricted, preventing women from obtaining contraception is potentially life threatening since many women opt to terminate unwanted pregnancies illegally.

Of course, the harsh restrictions don't stop abortion from happening, and horror stories abound: of 4 million unsafe and illegal abortions occurring per year; of women being killed and mutilated after botched back - alley procedures; of pregnant victims of rape and incest — like, recently, an 11 - year - old girl in Paraguay who was raped by her stepfather — being forced to carry their abusers» children to term.

The antiabortion group Center for Medical Progress has orchestrated a propaganda campaign accusing the nation's largest provider of abortions of profiting from the illegal sale of fetal tissue, a charge refuted by Planned Parenthood.

From the beginning, it was seen as a central strategy in support of the antiabortion movement's ultimate goal of making abortion illegal once again.