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Millions of
desperate women around the world still end unplanned pregnancies by resorting
to backstreet abortions or knitting needles. Worldwide the number of unsafe
abortions has risen, a recent study found. The majority of abortions in Africa
and Latin America are unsafe. Legalising abortion is the way to save lives,
says Women on Waves, a Dutch organisation that campaigns for safe abortion.
Around the
world, 43.9 million abortions were carried out in 2008. Almost half of them
took place in unsafe conditions, according to research by the Guttmacher
Institute and the World Health Organisation (WHO). The total number of
abortions has stabilised.
Knitting
needles
Rebecca
Gomperts of Women on Waves works to provide safe abortions for women in parts
of the world where abortion is outlawed. The rise in the number of unsafe
abortions doesn’t surprise her. “Particularly in countries where abortion is
illegal the procedure is carried out unsafely,” she says. “Unsafely means that
women do it themselves by jumping down the stairs, or using knitting needles,
or going to someone who’s had no training. But not every illegal abortion is
necessarily unsafe.”
For
example, abortion can be induced safely by a woman herself using the drug
Misoprostol, says Gomperts. “The pills were used to prevent stomach ulcers. But
because the authorities now know that Misoprostol can be used for other
purposes, women in Thailand, Brazil and the Philippines, for instance, haven’t
been able to get them for the past couple of years. Because of that there’s
been an increase in the number of unsafe abortions in these countries.”
Complications
One in
eight women who undergo an unsafe abortion die, according to WHO figures, and
8.5 million women a year are left requiring medical treatment. Gabie Raven of
the Dutch Society of Abortion Doctors has seen it happen in practice. “I’ve
worked in Africa myself and if you see the way they go to work with herbs and
pots and pans to induce an abortion, it’s obviously unsafe. It’s something
that’s always happened. But I’m surprised there’s been no improvement.”
Eight out
of ten women in developing countries face strict laws against abortion. Because
of the illegality, Gabie Raven says, many abortions take place in dangerous
settings. “Even if someone’s trained to do abortions, there’s always a chance
of complications. In the Netherlands we’re prepared for it, but with a
backstreet abortion it’s a different story.”
Information
Legalisation
is essential to stop the number of unsafe abortions from continuing to rise,
Gomperts says. “It’s extremely important that abortion is legalised. But that’s
a hard thing to achieve. In countries where it’s illegal, you first have to
provide women with good information on how they can induce an abortion safely
themselves using pills.”
Good
information on contraception is also needed to bring down the number of
unplanned pregnancies. Dutch Deputy Development Cooperation Minister Ben Knapen
sees a role in this for the Dutch government. “More than in other countries, we
talk about sensitive matters like abortion and sexuality without taboos. I’ve
made sexual health one of my priorities to enable girls and women to make their
own choices about reproduction and sexuality. We know that this leads to a fall
in unplanned pregnancies, abortions, and maternal mortality.”
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"... I want to define life for you - not biological life, but spiritual life. So for all those intellectuals, just hold on, for many won't like this. Spiritual life, as measured by Spirit, is when a Human has free choice. When is that? It's when they take their first breath. Not in utero. There will be those who will say, "That's wrong, that's wrong. The soul in the woman's body is alive!" Just wait. I'm talking about spiritually. That which Spirit sees, and it's when you come from the other side of the veil and take your first breath.
A child with the mother has no free choice. That child is linked to the choice of the mother until it is born. It is, indeed, a soul in preparation for free choice, and there are many attributes that are spiritual that we have discussed before about how that soul reacts. But now I'm discussing life with polarity [duality], free choice. ..."
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