Shelby Anderson
October 30, 2009
3:24 pm
In developing countries, many women do not have the chance to use a contraceptive. That is why the amount of unintended pregnancies and abortions is very high in these places. It has been found that the lowest rates of contraceptive use and the highest rates of unsafe abortions and unintended pregnancies can be found in the Sub-Saharan part of Africa. But many of these abortions are performed unsafely, resulting in death to many women. Sharon Camp of the Guttmacher Institute said, “In almost all developed countries, abortion is safe and legal, but in much of the developing world, abortion remains highly restricted, and unsafe abortion is common and continues to damage women's health and threaten their survival.” Statistics have shown that the amount of abortions taking place world wide has actually dropped recently, but forty percent of the women who get an abortion live in a developing country with strict abortion laws. These laws end up making the procedure a lot more dangerous to the women and could possibly result in death. It was estimated that 19.7 million of the 41.6 million abortions in 2003 were performed unsafely.
Nearly one half of the abortions performed around the world are unsafe. This is awful! I think there needs to be more focus on providing women with contraceptives, especially the women in developing countries. These women already lead a hard life and are not given the same chances women are in countries like the USA. If we focused on trying to prevent these pregnancies in the first place, women wouldn’t have to subject themselves to dangerous procedures that could possibly take their life.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33295584/ns/health-womens_health/
2 comments:
Its unfortunate to know that a procedure can be so unsafe. I am neither for nor against abortion but it surprises me, it think more should be done to help these women. But some abortions aren't even by choice which is sad.
It is quite sad that these things happen around the world, but it gives us great insight in that we need to educated the world on safe sex and proper medical technique.
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