koshergrl
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Poland has enjoyed state-sanctioned abortion a couple of times...under the Nazis, of course, then under Russia. Then there was revocation (since again revoked) of state sanctions of abortion (elective abortion became illegal).
"...here we have a large nation that, for four and a half decades, had abortion-on-request, paid for by the state. Certainly, the practice of abortion in Poland had become deeply ingrained. Then came independence and a law that took the total number of abortions down to 0.004% of what they had been, and this contrary to all predictions by government agencies, the media, the UN and Planned Parenthood. To perhaps everyone's surprise, there have been 25% fewer miscarriages and 30% fewer women dying compared with what it had been while abortion was legal. In the latest annual report, 21 women died from pregnancy-related problems, with none listed as dying from illegal abortions."
So there wasn't a surge in abortion related deaths when elective abortion was made illegal, and in fact the reproductive health of women IMPROVED. Poland, upon the termination of state-sanctioned abortion, enjoyed significantly fewer deaths from maternal-related complications (which are often actually abortion-related complications, deliberately or mistakenly misidentified on death certificates by professionals who either want to hide the nature of the death, or who want to protect the people who are responsible).
Fact 12 Prior to abortion s legalization 90 of abortions were done by doctors not by coat hangers in back alleys.
"...here we have a large nation that, for four and a half decades, had abortion-on-request, paid for by the state. Certainly, the practice of abortion in Poland had become deeply ingrained. Then came independence and a law that took the total number of abortions down to 0.004% of what they had been, and this contrary to all predictions by government agencies, the media, the UN and Planned Parenthood. To perhaps everyone's surprise, there have been 25% fewer miscarriages and 30% fewer women dying compared with what it had been while abortion was legal. In the latest annual report, 21 women died from pregnancy-related problems, with none listed as dying from illegal abortions."
So there wasn't a surge in abortion related deaths when elective abortion was made illegal, and in fact the reproductive health of women IMPROVED. Poland, upon the termination of state-sanctioned abortion, enjoyed significantly fewer deaths from maternal-related complications (which are often actually abortion-related complications, deliberately or mistakenly misidentified on death certificates by professionals who either want to hide the nature of the death, or who want to protect the people who are responsible).
Fact 12 Prior to abortion s legalization 90 of abortions were done by doctors not by coat hangers in back alleys.