Melinda’s Message to Dying Mothers: “Sorry, You Should Have Used a Condom”
The Bill and Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health is telling mothers that die because they choose to have children that using condoms could have prevented their complications in pregnancy. In an article published in Lancet, “Maternal deaths averted by contraceptive use: an analysis of 172 countries”, the Gates funded institute concludes that contraception is a [...]
CEDAW Committee Expert Grills Indonesian Delegation about Abortion and Maternal Mortality
One of the CEDAW Committee experts bombarded the Indonesian Delegation about what the country is doing to prevent maternal mortality and about the limited situations in which abortion is legal. Indonesian laws only allow abortion in cases when there is an emergency situation in the first 6 weeks of pregnancy and the mother’s life and [...]
How To Magically Make Abortion “Safe”
What’s worse than being a statistic? Not even being counted. That’s what is likely to happen to a 42-year old woman who, The Age reports, died on Sunday after a legal abortion at a Marie Stopes International clinic in Australia. Since Australia allows abortion, this will fall into the “safe abortion” category by some researchers [...]
Chile Promotes Effective Pro-Life Policies at UN Commission
Last week at the UN Commission on the Status of Women, the delegate from Chile made a very strong statement to refute the claim that legalizing abortion helps to reduce maternal mortality. The statement references Chile’s criminalization of therapeutic abortion in 1989, and the subsequent 89 percent drop in maternal deaths since then, based on [...]