RHRealityCheck.org Re: Abortion Laws
worried american thought you would like to see this page from the RHRealityCheck.org web site.
They'll say, "Good! Serves her right! She shouldn't have killed her baby." That is the usual reaction of pro-lifers to any tragedy resulting from abortion. Their so-called compassion is reserved for an undeveloped embryo, not an existing person.
by Andrea Lynch
The South African Health Department released some encouraging, but not necessarily surprising, statistics on Thursday: since 1997, when abortion was legalized under broad circumstances in South Africa, deaths from unsafe abortion have gone down an encouraging 91.1 percent. It's a fitting reminder that making abortion illegal doesn't make it stop, it just makes it unsafe. The South African Health Department should send the study to Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco, South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds, and Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, who have all signed or pledged to sign bills that would all but outlaw safe and legal abortion in their states.
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posted by Anonymous @ 6/19/2006 01:01:00 PM
2 Comments:
At Monday, June 19, 2006 3:00:00 PM ,
Endorendil said...
Damn it, I'm pro choice, but I just hate being fed crap like this:
"The South African Health Department released some encouraging, but not necessarily surprising, statistics on Thursday: since 1997, when abortion was legalized under broad circumstances in South Africa, deaths from unsafe abortion have gone down an encouraging 91.1 percent. It’s a fitting reminder that making abortion illegal doesn’t make it stop, it just makes it unsafe."
THAT IS NOT CORRECT, IT IS NOT LOGICAL, IT IS NOT REASONABLE!
If you legalize abortion, and make it easily available, deaths from unsafe abortion should go down 100%. The fact that it doesn't go down 100% reflects imperfect availability. And it is entirely irrelevant to the conclusion being drawn. Relevant numbers would be whether the total number of deaths went down (I'm practically sure that they do) and how the total number of abortions changed (I suspect they go up). The conclusion drawn is completely unwarranted, from the evidence presented.
If the secular, progressive, reasonable, rational side of the argument has that little concern for logic, why expect the other side to be any different. Please, people, set an example!!!
At Tuesday, June 20, 2006 2:53:00 PM ,
Endorendil said...
I agree. That's what I assume to, but it means that the numbers quoted are irrelevant. I might add that in some countries, such as Belgium, illegal abortions were very safe, since they were usually done by doctors, in (unmarked) medical facilities. And of course, making abortions legal does not make them safe - the USSR proved that.
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