So let's imagine it is illegal — you'll have a statistics
of illegal abortions, that is all.
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.
The 2010 University of Brasilia study found that a drug is used in at least half
of illegal abortions in Brazil.
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.
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.
Cristian Mungiu's 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days was a controlled descent into the inferno
of illegal abortion and the network of bureaucratic corruption late in the Ceaușescu regime.
Not exact matches
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.
Even in situations where
abortion is legal, the process
of finding a legitimate provider is time - consuming and difficult, forcing many women — particularly those who are young, poor, and uneducated — to seek out
illegal options.
In addition to the health threats, women who seek an
illegal abortion in Brazil are under the constant threat
of criminal action.
A disproportionate number
of women who seek
illegal abortions in Brazil are poor, young, and uneducated.
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.
For a more current look at what happens when
abortion is severely restricted, we looked to Brazil, where
abortion is
illegal except in cases
of rape, when the mother's life is in danger, and in the rare instances
of anencephaly, a severe fetal anomaly in which the fetus lacks parts
of the brain, leaving the infant with virtually no chance
of survival.
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.
Gosnell allegedly «snipped» the spinal cords
of seven newborns after performing
illegal late - term
abortions.
In Brazil, the country with more Catholics than any other in the world, status quo has largely gone unchallenged until recently:
Abortion is
illegal in this country, except in cases where the life
of the mother is in danger.
Some
of these centers (fewer than half) offer
abortion services, but none actually uses federal funds to perform
abortions, since using those funds for that purpose is already
illegal.
Gaunt, If
abortion was
illegal, none
of this would have happend.
Most
of the countries where
abortion is
illegal also suffer from widespread poverty and limited access to contraception — huge drivers in the
abortion rate.
Recent data published by The Lancet journal shows that countries where
abortion is
illegal or heavily restricted — mainly in Africa and Latin America — don't have lower
abortion rates than the rest
of the world.
After two lower court decisions blocked the release
of an undercover video that allegedly shows
abortion providers engaging in
illegal sale
of aborted baby tissue, the Supreme Court has killed...
According to Pew Research Center, across most major denominations, Christians think
abortion should be
illegal in almost all cases (for example, 71 percent within the Assemblies
of God, 66 percent within the Southern Baptist Convention, 77 percent within the Church
of God).
Furthermore, as I became more involved in the feminist conversation (some feminists are pro-life,
of course, but many are pro-choice), I began to understand some
of the arguments against the criminalization
of abortion, like that banning
abortion does not necessarily reduce the
abortion rate, that enforcing a ban on all
abortions would be impossible, and that women would likely seek out
abortions through unsafe,
illegal procedures anyway.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich has signed a new law that makes it
illegal for doctors in the state to perform
abortions based on a diagnosis
of Down syndrome.
You see,
abortion became legal because
of a massive practical problem, which is still taking massive numbers
of women's lives in parts
of Africa where
abortion is
illegal.
Those who support making
abortion illegal point to the fact that a fetus has a heartbeat at six weeks, and therefore, the termination
of a pregnancy is the equivalent
of killing a person.
Let's face it: We are unlikely to find a single party that truly represents a «culture
of life,» and
abortion will probably never be made
illegal, so we'll have to go about it the old fashioned way, working through the diverse channels
of the Kingdom to adopt and support responsible adoption, welcome single moms into our homes and churches, reach out to the lonely and disenfranchised, address the socioeconomic issues involved, and engage in some difficult conversations about the many factors that contribute to the
abortion rate in this country, (especially birth control).
FACT: If
abortion, were again made
illegal in any or all
of the United States, women in the middle and upper classes would continue to travel to places where they can safely end their pregnancies.
I, too, oppose
abortion and feel it should be
illegal as soon as possible, but I also favor an evenhanded treatment
of public officials in your esteemed magazine.
And yet the swell
of immigrants (more than twelve million
illegal and eleven million legal since 1986, according to his figures) is still dwarfed by the cohort
of unborn children lost to
abortion in the United States (more than twenty - nine million during the same two decades).
Similarly, the poll indicates that 56 percent
of Americans currently feel that
abortion should either always be
illegal or legal only in cases
of rape, incest, or to save the life
of the other.
One
of the interesting findings was also the lack
of correlation between
abortion being
illegal and the number
of actual
abortions performed.
In most places
abortion is legal in the early stages
of pregnancy, but late term
abortion is
illegal.
And the truth
of the matter, most slugs making noise about
abortion are only concerned with tax money being used, which in
of itself clearly shows they do not know anything about the law, and the use
of tax funds for
abortion, because it is already
illegal.
If it were a matter
of when life begins,
abortion would already be
illegal.
Statistics indicate that Americans, especially younger Americans, favor some restrictions on
abortion, and a record number
of millennials think
abortion should be
illegal altogether.
For years I adopted, without bothering to think, the attitude common among secular, affluent, university - educated people who took the propriety
of abortion for granted, even when it was
illegal.
Nucatola admits that
abortion providers will sometimes move the fetus into breech orientation so as to preserve more intact body parts, which is a mark
of illegal partial - birth
abortion.
Interesting numbers coming out
of a CNN poll, saying thirty - eight percent
of Americans believe
abortion should be
illegal in most circumstances, but legal in a few.
According to the Pew Research Center, 28 percent
of Democrats believe
abortion should be
illegal in all or most cases (compared to 59 percent
of Republicans).
For crying out loud the economy is in the gatter, people are starving and loosing their houses and the main concern
of the conservative parties right now are banning contraceptive, making
abortion illegal and ban gay marriages?
This week, the U.S. House
of Representatives passed new legislation that would make almost all
abortions, after a mother has been pregnant for 20 weeks,
illegal.
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.
The ramifications
of this are such that it could be considered
illegal to 1) Have an
abortion, 2) Use birth control and 3) Undergo in vitro fertilization.
Speaking
of LeRoyCarhart, four
of his former employees have reported unsafe and
illegal practices at his
abortion clinic in Bellevue, Nebraska - including unsanitary conditions and unlicensed staff starting IVs and dispensing medication.
And now, as the recent undercover videos show, there is a great reason to suspect that Planned Parenthood has been engaging in methods
of changing
abortion methods to better extract organs: very «
illegal» and very «unsafe.»
Just as
abortion, gay rights, and baseball doping will have no effect on the economy,
illegal invaders, the wars we are locked in, or the housing market, neither will the candidate's religious beliefs (counting any religion that advocates the murder
of others, the subjugating
of women, and the establishment
of it's own set
of laws — though I have no idea or what major religion would do so...).
«He is far
abortion,» NO HE»S FOR FREEDOM
OF CHOICE, «He is for
illegal immigrants taking us for a ride.»
On the other, I'm not convinced that making
abortion illegal would actually end
abortion unless accompanied by a sweeping change in the hearts and minds
of the American public.
While public support for
abortion remains at a 20 - year high (57 %, according to Pew Research Center), 70 percent
of white evangelicals and 40 percent
of women overall believe it should be
illegal.
StemExpress, a for - profit company partnered with over 30
abortion clinics, including Planned Parenthood, to harvest and sell aborted baby parts and provide a «financial benefit» to Planned Parenthood clinics, is attempting to use meritless litigation to cover - up this
illegal baby parts trade, suppress free speech, and silence the citizen press reporting on issues
of burning concern to the American public.