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- Since the 1990s, the spread of ultrasound machines has allowed pregnant women to find out the sex of their fetuses—and then get abortions if they are female.†
Chpt Intr. *abortions = ending of pregnancies
- To prevent sex-selective abortion, China and India now bar doctors and ultrasound technicians from telling a pregnant woman the sex of her fetus.†
Chpt Intr.abortion = intentionally ending a pregnancy
- Conservatives battle forced abortions in China, and liberals fight passionately for abortion rights in foreign lands.†
Chpt 6abortions = ending of pregnancies
- Conservatives battle forced abortions in China, and liberals fight passionately for abortion rights in foreign lands.†
Chpt 6abortion = intentionally ending a pregnancy
- Unsafe abortions cause the deaths of seventy thousand women annually and cause serious injuries to another 5 million.†
Chpt 6abortions = ending of pregnancies
- The immediate cause of death may be eclampsia, hemorrhage, malaria, abortion complications, obstructed labor or sepsis.†
Chpt 7abortion = intentionally ending a pregnancy
- This particular clinic was run by another member of the consortium, Marie Stopes International—but then George W. Bush cut off funds to Marie Stopes and the entire consortium, all around the world, because Marie Stopes was helping to provide abortions in China.†
Chpt 8abortions = ending of pregnancies
- She became one of untold victims of American abortion politics that effectively eliminated her only source of health care.†
Chpt 8abortion = intentionally ending a pregnancy
- The great battleground in these conflicts has been whether to fund organizations like Marie Stopes that have some links to abortions.†
Chpt 8abortions = ending of pregnancies
- Driven in part by conservative Christians, Republican presidents, including both Bushes, instituted the "gag rule," barring funds to any foreign aid group that, even with other money, counseled women about abortion options or had any link to abortions.†
Chpt 8abortion = intentionally ending a pregnancy
- Driven in part by conservative Christians, Republican presidents, including both Bushes, instituted the "gag rule," barring funds to any foreign aid group that, even with other money, counseled women about abortion options or had any link to abortions.†
Chpt 8abortions = ending of pregnancies
- As a result, said a Ghanaian doctor, Eunice Brookman-Amissah, "contrary to its stated intentions, the global gag rule results in more unwanted pregnancies, more unsafe abortions, and more deaths of women and girls.†
Chpt 8
- But in the 1980s American antiabortion activists began to target UNFPA.†
Chpt 8antiabortion = opposed to ending pregnancies by abortionstandard prefix: The prefix "anti-" in antiabortion means against or opposite. This is the same pattern you see in words like antiviral, antiaircraft, and antisocial.
- Although the organization does not perform abortions or fund them, critics noted that it advises China on population issues and that China has a coercive family planning program.†
Chpt 8abortions = ending of pregnancies
- UNFPA did make the disgraceful mistake in 1983 of awarding its Population Award gold medal to Qian Xinzhong, the head of the Chinese family planning program, who was then presiding over a brutal family planning crackdown involving forced abortions.†
Chpt 8
- The United States government had no mechanism to punish China for forced abortions, so instead it pummeled UNFPA.†
Chpt 8
- He's a good man who genuinely cared about Chinese women and was horrified by coerced abortions.†
Chpt 8
- A State Department fact-finding mission sent to investigate by the George W. Bush administration reported back: "We find no evidence that UNFPA has knowingly supported or participated in the management of a program of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization in the People's Republic of China.†
Chpt 8abortion = intentionally ending a pregnancy
- In the thirty-two counties in China where UNFPA operates pilot programs, it has reduced abortion rates by 40 percent, to a rate lower than that in the United States.†
Chpt 8
- That steel ring led to millions of unintended pregnancies and then to abortions.†
Chpt 8abortions = ending of pregnancies
- That was a huge advance for the 60 million Chinese women with IUDs, and it averted about 500,000 abortions every year.†
Chpt 8
- In short, since then, UNFPA has prevented nearly 10 million abortions in China.†
Chpt 8
- That has been the pattern again and again: With the best of intentions, pro-life conservatives have taken some positions in reproductive health that actually hurt those whom they are trying to help—and that result in more abortions.†
Chpt 8
- Pro-choice and pro-life camps, despite their differences, should be able to find common ground and work together on many points, in particular on an agenda to reduce the number of abortions.†
Chpt 8
- Visit clinics in Estonia, where abortions were widely used as a form of birth control, where some women had ten or more abortions, and you see the resulting high levels of infertility and other complications.†
Chpt 8
- Visit clinics in Estonia, where abortions were widely used as a form of birth control, where some women had ten or more abortions, and you see the resulting high levels of infertility and other complications.†
Chpt 8
- And in poor countries, abortions are sometimes as lethal to the mother as to the fetus.†
Chpt 8
- For every 150 unsafe abortions in sub-Saharan Africa, a woman dies; in the United States, the risk is less than 1 in 100,000.†
Chpt 8
- So liberals and conservatives should be able to agree on steps that prevent unwanted pregnancies and thus reduce the frequency of abortion.†
Chpt 8abortion = intentionally ending a pregnancy
- Whatever one thinks of abortion, it's tragic that up to 40 percent of all pregnancies globally are unplanned or unwanted—and that almost half of those result in induced abortions.†
Chpt 8
- Whatever one thinks of abortion, it's tragic that up to 40 percent of all pregnancies globally are unplanned or unwanted—and that almost half of those result in induced abortions.†
Chpt 8abortions = ending of pregnancies
- The studies suggest that the result is more pregnancies, more abortions, more sexually transmitted diseases, and more HIV.†
Chpt 8
- I'm going to follow this to the ends of the earth to further this cause.... Forty women every minute seek unsafe abortions—to me this is just a crime against humanity.†
Chpt 8
- The combination of the one-child birth control policy and convenient access to ultrasound testing means that parents routinely check the sex of a fetus and get an abortion if it is female.†
Chpt 12abortion = intentionally ending a pregnancy
- Her first meeting was with a woman named Ajsa, who had been released from a rape camp when she was eight months pregnant—too late to get an abortion.†
Chpt 12
Definitions:
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(1)
(abortion as in: have an abortion) intentional ending of pregnancy with medical assistance by removing the fetus or embryo from the body before it is able to surviveA spontaneous abortion (more commonly called a miscarriage) is an abortion that happens without medical assistance or intent
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)