There is no good evidence that criminalizing abortions actually stops them from happening. What we DO know is that women who are unable to access safe medical abortions are forced into more dangerous options
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The WHO describes unsafe abortion as a "preventable epidemic", due in large part to the horrifying burden in death and disease unsafe abortions causepic.twitter.com/oHBbHpA0hY
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And even if you think that abortion is ethically unjustifiable, the evidence from the Global Gag Rule's implementation and other abortion bans shows quite convincingly that bans simply do not stop abortions from happeningpic.twitter.com/GvuQzvQZ2u
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Countries - like Brazil - that ban abortion in most or all cases generally do not have lower rates of abortion The one thing that does work? Effective, cheap, easily accessible contraception
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It's a bit of a no-brainer really: if you prevent the unwanted pregnancies in the first place, abortions become less of an issue
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If you want to prevent abortions, improve access to women's health If you want to kill women, just ban legal abortions
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The blog goes into more detail if you're interestedhttps://medium.com/@gidmk/banning-abortions-kills-women-dffd22d21598 …
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I will always support legal abortion. I saw the results of the backstreet kind too often when I was training. We do NOT want to return to that situation.
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I can't object to abortion. I thought I would choose it myself until the double line showed up. I absolutely cannot support banning it. But I absolutely think that we have to work to limit the number of women that are faced with that decision. Educate, not eradicate.
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If we ban abortions we allow women to die during birth who are given the choice to live and let their child die or die and let their child live (I'm talking those who are suffering from complications during birth who are given that choice and yes it is a real thing that happens).
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