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NOW HEAR THIS!
Facts for the Moderate Majority: What the
Right Wing Doesn't Want You To Know
An Irregular Monthly Column by Marilyn Fitterman
- Over 500,000 women die each year in pregnancy and childbirth.
- The number of women worldwide who die each year from pregnancy and childbirth-related complications equals the total number of U.S. deaths in World War I, World War II, the Korean War and Vietnam War all combined.
- Over 75,000 women die each year trying to end pregnancies unsafely.
- It is much less expensive, in almighty taxpayer dollars, to help a woman end an unwanted pregnancy than to help her raise an unwanted child for 18 years.
- It is much less expensive to aid in family planning than to correct the social effects of unwanted and uncared for children, many of whom become criminals.
- The world’s population is growing by 76 million a year. This adds to the world the equivalent of a total US population every four years.
- In countries where abortion is illegal, it remains the leading cause of maternal death.
- Complications from first trimester abortion are considerably less frequent than those associated with giving birth. In other words, laws restricting abortion mandate the more dangerous alternative.
Most of these population increases are taking place in Third World countries where food, water, and health services are already in critically short supply. Yet, our President is closing family planning clinics around the globe, and enforcing his Gag Rule whereby US family planning funds are denied to countries where abortion is legal and to organizations that mention termination. The religious ideologues who currently control our country must be taken to task for the horrific damage they are doing, not only to women and children here in the US, but also worldwide.
Since the Democratic Party can’t get out of it’s own way to save our country, it is up to us women in feminist organizations, (who care about life after birth) to speak up, speak out, and do whatever is necessary to stop politicians from practicing medicine without a license.
WHAT CAN WE DO? Get these facts into our local papers in monthly, weekly, and daily Letters to the Editors!
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