To those who say back alley abortions don't happen

Unsafe abortions in the developing world kill 68,000 women a year, research suggests

The article does say that this number includes both legal and back alley abortion. It doesn't say what percentage of these fatalities come from what.

"The most effective way of eliminating this highly preventable cause of maternal illness and death, would be to make safe and legal abortion services available and accessible.

"A second, more immediately achievable, goal is to prevent unintended pregnancies in the first place through improved contraception use."

Seems pretty clear that what ever the number of these come from legal, yet still unsafe, the conclusion is making contraception widely available, abortion legal and improving safety, is the way to lower this number.

Though the fundies draw a different conclusion

The burden of the study is clearly to promote the killing of more unborn babies in poorer countries, regardless of the fact that women do not want abortions

Paul Tully
Society for the Protection of Unborn Children

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