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God's Own Baby-Killers: Abortions Soar Where Religious Zeal Abounds

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Monbiot also points out that while these attitudes cause much suffering in rich
nations, "it doesn't compare to the misery inflicted on the poor":


Chillingly, as the Lancet paper shows, there is no relationship between the legality
and the incidence of abortion. Women with no access to contraceptives will try to
terminate unwanted pregnancies. A World Health Organisation report shows that
almost half the world's abortions are unauthorised and unsafe. In East Africa and
Latin America, where religious conservatives ensure that terminations remain illegal,
they account for almost all abortions. Methods include drinking turpentine or bleach,
shoving sticks or coathangers into the uterus, and pummelling the abdomen, which
often causes the uterus to burst, killing the patient. The WHO estimates that bet-
ween 65,000 and 70,000 women die as a result of illegal abortions every year,
while 5 million suffer severe complications. These effects, the organisation says,
"are the visible consequences of restrictive legal codes".


Monbiot goes on to note something we have been condemning here and elsewhere
for years: that the supposedly "pro-life" policies of George W. Bush and his ideolo-
gical fellow travellers are directly responsible for killing thousands of the most
vulnerable people on earth. As Monbiot says:


When the Pope tells bishops in Kenya -- the global centre of this crisis -- that
they should defend traditional family values "at all costs" against agencies offering
safe abortions, or when he travels to Brazil to denounce its contraceptive pro-
gramme, he condemns women to death. When George Bush blocks aid for family
planning charities that promote safe abortions, he ensures, paradoxically, that
contraceptives are replaced with backstreet foeticide. These people spread misery,
disease and death. And they call themselves pro-life.
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