Tag: maternal mortality

While RH Reality Check writer Rev. Debra Haffner criticizes anti-abortion activist Rev. Jim Wallis' ineffective and insulting `abortion reduction' strategy, saying that a more effective way to lower the abortion rate is to reduce the instance of unplanned pregnancies and increase economic opportunities for women.  

The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health will ask the G8 summit to commit an additional $10.2 billion annually to support family planning and maternal and child health programs in developing nations (via Women's eNews).

And of course, we all know that pregnancy is the end result of SEX!

And for much of the Religious Right, any slut who doesn't want to have a baby has no business having SEX, and a rise in Maternal Morbidity (M&M) and Mortality is exactly what she deserves!  And, you might ask, "what about Birth Control (BC)?"  Well, don't ask!  If she's screwing around and doesn't want a baby, she deserves to get sick and die!

For the Religious Right and TGDSOBGWB, abstinence is the answer.  Just say NO!

Like both James Dobson and Tony Perkins' pro-war Family Research Council prayer team, Conservative Woman is hell on both Islamist plots and abortion - but what happens when their twin "Christian" crusades collide?

What is happening is exactly what anyone should have expected. Pregnant Iraqi women and their babies are dying in unprecedented numbers - and women who fear adding to that horrendous death toll with their own lives and those of their children are taking what they see as a lesser gamble by seeking out illegal and unsafe abortions.

The War on Terror is making us all safer, one tiny terrorist at a time.