Every 6 minutes a woman dies needlessly as a result of an unsafe illegal abortion.
Police photo of Gerri Santoro, mother of two children, who died in 1964 at age 27 in a Connecticut motel room after a botched illegal abortion. She was left to die alone in the motel by the man that operated on her using borrowed medical implements and a textbook. See http://www.sapphireblue.com/25years/
Induced abortion is one of the most performed medical interventions. Making abortion illegal does not reduce the number of abortions. 20 million of the 46 million abortions performed annually are illegal and unsafe. Legalization of abortion can prevent unnecessary suffering and death of women.
Worldwide more than 1/3 of all pregnancies are unplanned. Every year nearly 1/4 of all pregnant women worldwide choose to have an abortion (circa 46 million annually). The legal status of abortion makes little difference to overall levels of abortion incidence. Where illegal, most abortions are done with unsafe methods. Where illegal, it is primarily women without financial means who take recourse to unsafe abortion methods, resulting in the death of a woman every 6 minutes.
At the International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, unsafe abortion was recognized as a major public health problem. The WHO estimates that 20 million of the 46 million pregnancies which are terminated by induced abortion every year are performed under unsafe conditions and in an adverse social and legal climate, resulting in approximately 80,000 deaths each year due to infection, hemorrhages, uterine injury and the toxic effects of agents taken to induce abortion.
At this moment approximately 25% of the world population lives in 54 countries (mainly in Africa, Latin America and Asia) with highly restrictive laws that either ban abortion entirely or permit it only to save the life of the pregnant women.
The poorer women are, the more likely it is that, faced with unwanted pregnancy, they will provoke an abortion themselves or go to a person without medical training, increasing health risks and the risk of hospitalization due to complications. Availability of safe and above all affordable abortion will also have implications for the future financial situation of such women and/or their families and can therefore be considered part of the struggle against poverty.
Rumania provides a unique case study of the factors that influence the use of unsafe abortion: in 1966 legal abortion was restricted and the abortion-related maternal mortality rate increased sharply, ten times higher than the average for the rest of Europe; in 1989 abortion was again made available on request and the number of maternal deaths fell sharply. By contrast the Netherlands has the lowest reported abortion rate because of a non-restrictive abortion law within a comprehensive framework that includes universal sex education in schools and easily accessible family planning services and the provision of emergency contraception. Of the 29,266 abortions performed there in 1997, the complication rate for first trimester treatments was 0,3% with no resulting deaths whatsoever.
Restrictive abortion laws violate women's human rights based on agreements made at the UN International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
9 comments:
I'm sorry, but Gerri Santoro doesn't make a very good poster girl for the pro-choice movement. She aborted when she was six months pregnant, a time when the fetus would have already been fairly well-developed (many babies today born at six months of pregnancy are viable). I suspect the average person who would have no qualms about aborting a six-week-old embryo would have much more moral discomfort at the idea of aborting at Santoro's stage of pregnancy. Even jurisdictions where abortion is permitted on demand (and fully funded) in the first stages of pregnancy generally forbid it by the end of the first trimester other than for fetal deformity (which did not seem to be the situation in Santoro's case). So if she were living in such a jurisdiction she might have found herself in exactly the same position as in pre-Roe US.
Yes, it's a tragedy she died, but I think even many people who support a woman's right to abortion in the first three months or so of pregnancy would have problems with Santoro's case.
Emily (ehelgersen@hotmail.com)
this woman deserved to die it was not fare for her unborn child to die without seeing the world why should she have the right to and to all the other women , if you don't want a baby use protection or don't have sex
You pro life people really shit me. First of all You say this women deserved to die how could how could you say that!? are you preaching to save life's? please give us a break. Women have the right to chose what we do with our bodies NOT YOURS! your are not god. Not all women go out and get pregnant all the time and get abortion for the hell of it, MOST of them have a very good reason for it.
Maybe you should spend a day in these womens shoes and you tell us that its easy.
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