Comments on: “Pro-life” laws kill women

By: abraham

abraham — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 23:31:52 +0000

truth is… laws or not,unwanted pregnancies and abortions will take place. Lets make it safe by not making it a crime.. it’s a thin line between pro- life and pro- DEATH!

By: 10 Reasons to Support Reproductive Justice on Roe Day - CommonDreams.org

10 Reasons to Support Reproductive Justice on Roe Day - CommonDreams.org — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:42:26 +0000

[...] more are injured. Women around the world suffer when pro-life laws rule the land. And “pro-lifers” could care less. Illegal abortion is the cause of 25% of all maternal deaths in Latin [...]

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 02:24:32 +0000

No, Vanessa. The women are dead as a result of their own actions. Of course it’s tragic, but I don’t see how it logically follows an action should be made legal because the injury a woman may do herself in the commission of a crime. Shall we make robbing banks legal because one of the bandits might be injured in the commission of a robbery?

I’m not dogmatically anti-abortion, but this particular line of reasoning is pretty weak tea.

By: Vanessa

Vanessa — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:12:54 +0000

Pro-forced pregnancy people like to talk about people taking responsibility for their actions…well, these dead women are the result of the actions of a so-called ‘pro-life’ agenda. Will they take responsibility for their deaths? For the orphaned children?

By: Trinifar

Trinifar — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 07:22:00 +0000

Nigeria has about 140 million people in 2007; more than 250 ethnic groups and 4000 dialects. It’s about twice the size of California. It’s experiencing about the fastest population growth in the world (if it keeps up it will have 500 million people in 2050). It also has the ninth largest oil reserves in the world which is more of a curse than a blessing because it ensures Nigerian leaders are controlled by American oil companies and their American political friends.

If we want to help Nigeria we need to replace the current administration in the USA.

By: Jo

Jo — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 02:15:37 +0000

This also leaves me wondering what the 1) life expectancy for women and 2) percentage of maternal deaths vs. maternal survival rates looks like in that country.

Because forced pregnancy kills women who *don’t* get abortions too, I’m thinking.

(I may have to go find those numbers, if I can.)

By: Katlyn

Katlyn — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 00:51:19 +0000

Yep.

And the worst part about it is that pro-lifers would never blame outlawing abortion for the deaths of 220,000 women. I can just hear them all saying, “Well, she knew it was risky. She DESERVED to die!”

Pro-life indeed.