Sen. Ted Cruz Gets Gosnell Wrong: Pro-Life Policies Will Only Increase These Horrors

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I don't expect the likes of Senator Ted Cruz to pause and think critically about women's health before tweeting out his misinformed perspective on the right wing's hot-button issue of the day:

Bravo to the pro-lifers who made #Gosnell a national story. Your work is desperately needed to ensure such a horror never happens again.
— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) April 13, 2013

Ted Cruz gets it all wrong: "pro-life" activists actually increase the odds of more horrors like those perpetrated by Kermit Gosnell by working to restrict women's access to safe and legal abortions, as well as birth control to prevent pregnancy in the first place.

Half of all US pregnancies are unintended. Of those, half, or 1.3 million pregnancies end in abortion every year. Half of those women were using contraception at the time and became pregnant (no method is 100% effective).

Studies have shown that the rate of abortion is the same in countries where it is legal and illegal. Half of all abortions are performed in unsafe conditions, meaning that they are performed by individuals who lack sufficient professional training, or are done in unsuitable facilities that do not meet minimum medical standards. About 70,000 women die every year from unsafe abortions. An additional 5 million women suffer permanent or temporary injury.

More at http://www.burntorangereport.com/diary/13364/sen-ted-cruz-gets-gosnell-wrong-prolife-policies-will-only-increase-these-horrors .