Legalize Abortion?

[mannyamador]

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UN Admits that Access to Abortion Not Effective at Reducing Maternal Mortality
(http://www.c-fam.org/)

Earlier this month, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) released its annual report on maternal mortality around the world. The report shows that the most important means of reducing maternal mortality is the presence of a skilled birth attendant with access to adequate emergency obstetrical care. The report contradicts UNFPA's earlier strategy of focusing on access to contraceptives and legalized abortion as the main means of reducing maternal mortality.

The report, entitled "Maternal Mortality Update 2004: Delivering Into Good Hands," states that some 529,000 women died in 2000 as a result of complications in pregnancy and childbirth, with 95 percent of deaths occurring in Africa and Asia. Only 2,500 maternal deaths occurred in developed countries, where the risk of maternal death is one in 2,800, compared to one in 16 in sub-Saharan Africa.

The report acknowledges that "almost all maternal mortality is avoidable," because "all five of the most life-threatening complications can be treated by a professional health worker." Thus, "We know that efficient emergency interventions for complications are key to saving women's lives."

Dr. George Mulcaire-Jones of Maternal Life International, an international provider of maternal health care, says that the report "largely validates what the pro-life community has said all along: that reducing maternal deaths comes down to the kind of skilled obstetrical care given women -- adequate training and clean, well-supplied birthing facilities -- and has little to do with introducing notions of reproductive rights."

Yet the report states that alongside the provision of emergency obstetric care and birth attendants, UNFPA's "three-pronged strategy" of reducing maternal mortality focuses on "contraceptive services to prevent unwanted pregnancy." A "rights-based approach" to maternal mortality, which "promotes the empowerment of women," continues to "guide the design and implementation of UNFPA's maternal mortality policy and programming."

According to Mulcaire-Jones, UNFPA's "three-pronged strategy is flawed at the outset," because UNFPA channels the bulk of its funding into contraception. "Contraceptive services should be separated from maternal health and obstetrical services – both in terms of funding, accounting, and program implementation. Only in this way will skilled care and safe, clean and well-supplied health facilities receive the attention and funding required to meaningfully reduce maternal death."

Mulcaire-Jones also stated that UNFPA's "rights-based approach" is flawed for lack of "universal acknowledgment of the most fundamental right of all – the right to life . . . UNFPA's stated policies in support of abortion immediately create a conflict of rights by negating the right to life of unborn children."

Copyright 2005 - C-FAM (Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute). Permission granted for unlimited use. Credit required.

[WAYOK@@]

luoya gud s anga gamayng bata.

[lalakingbisdak]

Stop abortion.

[manananggalko]

Abortion is not the answer to a countries population problem but educating the citizenry safer ways to prevent getting pregnant especially in a country like ours.

[mannyamador]

Abstinence is a better solution...

[godCode]

panit sa chorizo

[cerebus]

maternal mortality caused by inaccessibility of proper health service = check
contraceptive to prevent unwanted pregnancy thus reduce maternal mortality = check
access to abortion reduce maternal mortality = where is it?

is un promoting abortion? worldwide? or just in asia and africa. in any case, all i can say: whoa!

i assume that countries that has access to abortion are the developed ones (1:2,800) and not those in sub-sahara (1:16).

[reibac]

In our overcrowded world today, there are countries that abolish the death penalty for the criminals but approved the abortion.

So does this mean that it is better to kill a child than to kill a criminal?

very complicated though.



http://www.btgh.org/messages.php?act...message_id=357

Genesis 9:1
Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth."

[cebucity]

Imagine a MOTHER(soon-ruiz) signed the ABORTION LEGALIZATION!!!!!!

ITS Because of MONEY!!!!!!

Y kontra sila sauna ni OUANO kaayo, karon perting DAEG2x nila ni OUANO!!!!!! Y

ITS Because of MONEY!!!!!

What can you say about this?

[trednasyl]

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