Virginia’s assault on abortion claims a victim

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2. The Cycle of Sacrifice Unwinds

How many years before the reports of deaths from botched abortions start appearing in the Virginia press?

From the Orlando Women's Center; found by search on 'botched abortion statistics':

Approximately 25% of the world population lives in countries with highly restrictive abortion laws, mostly in Asia, Africa and Latin America

One woman dies every 7 minutes around the world due to an unsafe illegal abortion. Women who undergo illegal abortions are those who are very poor and do not have access to family planning facilities for education and prevention of unwanted pregnancies

Making abortion illegal or legal has no effect on the total number of abortions performed in the world. Making abortion legal dramatically reduces maternal morbidity and mortality.

Between 10 and 50% of unsafe abortion cases need medical attention but a lot of women delay or decide not to seek medical care. This is because in a lot of countries where it is illegal to have abortions performed, the women who go to the hospital for help will be reported to the local law authorities and are subject to arrest and spending time in jail. The medical staff often refuses to help and will even harass women about their botched abortion. 600,000 maternal deaths occur each year. Seventy thousand (70,000) of those maternal deaths are from the complications of unsafe abortion which represents 12 to 13% percent of maternal deaths.

(NB: The Phil Ochs' lyric used as the title to the reply comes from a different context, but it was the thought that occurred to me immediately while reading the post. And not such a different context, really. Another story of needless, senseless death repeated again, and again, and again, and again.)

Thanks for the post, n2doc.