Sentences with phrase «illegal abortions»

So let's imagine it is illegal — you'll have a statistics of illegal abortions, that is all.

Many more will have travelled elsewhere or bought illegal abortion medication to end their pregnancies.

In 2008, 12 percent of maternal deaths in the region were caused by back - alley or otherwise illegal abortion procedures.

Story of Women (1988, Home Vision) While this true story of a working class housewife (Isabelle Huppert) who performs illegal abortions in Nazi - occupied France may be a change - of - pace for Chabrol, it is not a change of style.

Late at night, Gosnell performed illegal abortions in a clinic with blood and cat feces on the floor and semi-conscious, moaning women covered in dirty blankets, according to the 281 - page grand jury report laying out the allegations against him.

According to Drexler, «We know, for instance, that the demand for illegal abortions in Latin America increased by almost 100 percent during the Zika outbreak.»

A disproportionate number of women who seek illegal abortions in Brazil are poor, young, and uneducated.

A 2015 Gallup poll found that just 19 percent of those surveyed believed that abortion should be illegal under all circumstances, but in March, Trump's assertion during an MSNBC town hall event that women who get illegal abortions should be subject to some kind of penalty shocked even some conservatives.

According to research from the Guttmacher Institute, illegal abortions occur more than twice as often in Brazil as legal abortions do in the U.S.; in the Netherlands, where abortion is free and widely available, the abortion rate is half what it is in the U.S.

The miracle worker here is Christian Mungiu, the Romanian writer - director who helped put his country's cinema on the map with 2007's 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, a firebomb about illegal abortion.

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

Christian politicians justified their support for this law with the fallacy that the new law would end illegal abortions and prevent full legalisation as in the United States.

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

The Supreme Court judges have an opportunity to rectify a situation which currently causes undue distress to hundreds of women and leads many more with no choice but to buy illegal abortion pills online.

Anas works directly with police in placing himself undercover, where he infiltrates prostituion rings, illegal abortion clinics, and religious cults all for the sake of getting the information out to the people and spurring on social change.

Homer has a mind of his own, and won't perform the then illegal abortions, and soon wants to leave the orphanage and see the world he's never seen.

Set in the mid-1980s, it builds a thriller - like story of a woman trying to help her friend obtain a dangerous illegal abortion — yet it's a thriller so deliberate that its very slowness and lack of movement becomes a major source of tension.

Ironically, because of the continued illegality of abortion in most states, the difficulty in justifying a legal hospital abortion in others, and the fear, expense and uncertainty of procuring a good illegal abortion, modern woman has often had to turn to primitive methods of selfinduced abortion despite the sophistication of modern medicine.

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.

In 1965, illegal abortions made up one - sixth of all pregnancy - and childbirth - related deaths.

>> Avengers star Mark Ruffalo spoken out in support of women's reproductive rights, with a letter he penned about the right to choose being read out at a US rally last weekend: «My mother's illegal abortion marked a time in America that we have worked long and hard to leave behind.

The 2010 University of Brasilia study found that a drug is used in at least half of illegal abortions in Brazil.

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.

The film is about a young arrogant OBGYN who is a vegetarian and gets involved with the Russian mafia by performing illegal abortions for their prostitutes.

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.

Although the exact number of illegal abortions in the U.S. is hard to determine, many reproductive rights experts believe that self - induced abortions will continue to rise as the process of finding a legal abortion becomes more time - consuming and difficult.

In most cases where police action is taken, the complaints were made by doctors who treated a woman after an illegal abortion, despite the fact that doctors in Brazil are required to maintain patient confidentiality.

The combination of restricted access to abortion and increased Internet access has led to the rise of Do - It - Yourself abortions in the U.S., many of which look remarkably like the illegal abortions taking place in Brazil.

In addition to the health threats, women who seek an illegal abortion in Brazil are under the constant threat of criminal action.

Illegal abortions are taking place all the time while putting the life of the mother at very high risk.

In Poland, abortion is mostly limited to cases of incest, rape or when the mother's life is medically threatened, but the number of illegal abortions is thought to be very high.

I have been a registered nurse for over 37 years, and I remember caring for young women who had been on the receiving end of an illegal abortion before it was legal in this country.

Because placing more restrictions on abortion would force some women to resort to illegal abortion.

To force more women to resort to illegal abortions?

How would they be forced to get an illegal abortion if abortion was still legal?

Nathanson described the various characters which he met during that era, and recreated the atmosphere of the pre-Roe days with accounts of the illegal abortion subculture, the appearance at hospitals of women who were suffering the after - effects of botched abortions, the under - the - table referral of women to abortionists in Puerto Rico and elsewhere, and the way in which hospital abortion committees were used to rubber stamp requests for «therapeutic» abortions.

When Nathanson was a pro-choice activist, it seems that his primary motivation was a concern for the health of women who were involved in the illegal abortion underground.

Terminations are currently only allowed in the Irish Republic when the life of the mother is at risk and the maximum penalty for accessing an illegal abortion is 14 years in prison.

The second is from NARAL founder Bernard Nathanson, admitting that the pro-choice arguments before Roe v. Wade about the numbers of deaths from illegal abortions were simply fabrications on the order of 10 - 20 times the amount that an accurate assessment could have produced.

Even though her doctors could have been arrested they agreed to perform an illegal abortion to spare her this second trauma.

The Vatican expressed worries that Chavéz might water down illegal abortions, but not much has happened.

They lead to around 50,000 deaths making unsafe, illegal abortions one of the most common causes of death among women of fertile age.

In Uganda there is a very restrictive policy towards abortions, which means that illegal abortions are common, with a large number of incomplete abortions as the result.

Drama A woman assists her friend in arranging an illegal abortion in 1980s Romania..