guardian.co.uk — For the Nicaraguan rich, a problematic pregnancy need not be a death sentence. You can fly to Miami or bribe a discreet private clinic in Managua. But in this wretchedly poor country most young women do not have money. Their choice is to go through with a pregnancy that may kill them, or attempt a DIY termination that may kill them.
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pintomp3Oct 9, 2007
i can just as easily say an egg is a chicken. but it's still not true.
flygirl62Oct 9, 2007
You *wish* logic would prevail. As you said, "this is the real world"... it often DOESN'T
Closed AccountOct 10, 2007
On the bright side, thousands of babies were saved.
captainnopantsOct 10, 2007
+1
vjekoOct 10, 2007
Yep!
burndiveOct 10, 2007
No, actually, it's about one woman, and then there are 81 other women about whom we know nothing, except that the author blames their deaths on an abortion ban. One could easily write an equivalently-biased story about a woman who opts for a legal abortion, and dies of complications.Really, it's not about the number of lives saved or lost: we're not playing a statistical game. It's about the value of human life. I am personally of the opinion that human life is of equal value, whether that person happens to be born yet or not. Anyone who kills someone else, simply to avoid the just demands that that person will "burden" them with is a murderer.I don't have a problem with abortions to save a mother's life; I do have a problem with abortions simply because it inconveniences the parents' lives: that's what all murder boils down to: someone not wanting to deal with the consequences of someone else being alive.
theirishman16Feb 27, 2008
Umm, were u griping about commenting without reading?... Abortion is still legal for ectopic pregnancies-maybe you should read the article :) Just sadly many doctors don't seem to realise it yet.