The Anything and Everything Topics Related To Abortion Thread

A: In 2015, an estimated 303 000 women will die from complications related to pregnancy or childbirth. In addition, for every woman who dies in childbirth, dozens more suffer injury, infection or disease.

The majority of maternal deaths are due to haemorrhage, infection, unsafe abortion, and eclampsia (very high blood pressure leading to seizures), or from health complications worsened in pregnancy.

In all these cases, unavailable, inaccessible, unaffordable, or poor quality care is fundamentally responsible.
Maternal deaths are detrimental to social development and wellbeing, as some 1 million children are left motherless each year. These children are more likely to die within 1-2 years of their mothers' death.

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minnie616 said:

Maternal deaths are a very real concern , whether it is caused by pregnancy , childbirth , or unsafe abortions.

From WHO


WHO | Why do so many women still die in pregnancy or childbirth?

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Removable Mind said:

This is "The Anything and Everything Topics Related To Abortion Thread:. In other words don't feel restricted to any specific topic related to abortion.

No thread in DP is on topic all of the time. Some threads get so diluted there like a pat of butter spread on a loaf of bread.

So why waste a good opportunity to keep those free streaming thoughts from being expressed - especially when somebody says, "That's not related to the thread topic. Or..."Your post isn't irrelevant to the topic."

The thing about all of the possible abortion topics - they really are related at some level or some capacity. I mean this could include biology, legal/constitutional issues, philosophical issues, etc, etc....

Feel free to talk amongst yourselves...

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Cardinal said:

Women are filthy whores and murderers! And they should have control over their own reproductive choices and have access to free birth control and abortions without fear of judgment!!

How's that?

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Cardinal said:

Women are ... murderers!

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FutureIncoming said:

INACCURATE. After all, it is usually doctors who commit abortion, not the women getting the operation done. In your diatribe, the women should be called "accessories to murder", or "accomplices". But they aren't actually doing the murdering.

AND WRONG, ANYWAY, since abortion is not actually "murder". Murder involves killing a person. No unborn human qualifies as a person, and therefore killing one cannot be murder. If you wish to claim an unborn human qualifies as a person and not just-another mere-animal entity, let's see your Objectively Verifiable evidence (not subjective stuff like the hear-say and say-so of dictionary definitions)!

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minnie616 said:

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South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) signed legislation that outlaws most abortions in the state at 20 weeks after fertilization [“Legislation outlaws abortions at 20 weeks,” Digest, May 26]. Is she aware that a fetal ultrasound that can detect brain abnormalities is done at 20 weeks? Is she aware that the Zika virus is a threat to the United States?

Only 1 in 5 infected people develops symptoms of Zika, but as many as 13 percent of women infected during their first trimester will have a fetus with severe brain defects.

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So in order to give all pregnancies some standard timing, most practitioners use the first day of your last menstrual period as the starting line of your 40-week pregnancy. Still confused? Think of it as a head start — you're clocking in roughly two weeks of pregnancy before you even conceive!

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