Reuters headline:
Unsafe abortions kill 70,000 a year, harm millions
Tue Oct 13, 2009 1:29pm EDT
- Abortion rates fall but unsafe abortions still kill 70,000
- Women in countries with restrictive laws are at risk
- Dangerous abortion imposes heavy economic, health burden
Here is where the article completely makes the headline a (horrific) joke-
Despite easier access to abortion with restrictions being relaxed in many countries, the number of abortions fell from an estimated 45.5 million in 1995 to 41.6 million in 2003, the report by the U.S.-based Guttmacher Institute said.
But the study found a stubbornly high number -- almost 20 million -- of unsafe abortions, mostly in poorer countries and often carried out by the women themselves using inappropriate drugs or herbal potions, or by untrained traditional healers.
41.6 million abortions, to use the latest number, equals 41.6 million people killed per year-not 70,000.
41.6 million innocent human babies ground up and thrown away.
But to the media and the political left the horror is that an additional 70,000 women are killed.
To me, the horror is that 140,000 is the additional number killed, not 70,000.
To explain to the poor muddled masses of the left:
70,000 mothers + 70,000 babies killed each year in "unsafe" abortions = 140,000 dead.
41,600,000 + 140,000 makes an even 41,740,000 DEAD.
What is it that makes an abortion safe?
Apparently a 50% mortality rate is considered perfect, a "perfectly safe abortion." As long as one of the two people undergoing the procedure can walk away it is a "safe" abortion.
Usually that survivor is the mother, usually the one who dies is the baby: 50 - 50
Only when the mother is also at risk of injury or death is it "unsafe" and worthy of news coverage, international health outcry, and calls for more funds to ensure that 50/50 ratio is more carefully maintained.
