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Today is World Health Day.
#prochoicenz is organising a blogswarm one one theme: Abortion is a health issue, not a crime.
Abortion is in the Crimes Act in New Zealand. It shouldn't be. An abortion is a choice made by a woman about her own body. Having an abortion can save a woman's life: abortions are quite a bit safer than pregnancy, if they're performed legally. Women need to be able to make that choice for themselves - with their doctors: because abortion is a health issue.
Women who are forced into pregnancy can suffer physical and emotional complications. Forced pregnancies are bad for women, they make them unhealthy. Abortion is a health issue.
All things being equal, making it harder to get a legal abortion doesn't reduce the number of abortions in a country. It increases the number of illegal abortions in a country, which increases the number of complications from botched back-alley abortions. Abortion is a health issue.
There's one way in which abortion is related to crime, of course: making it easier to get a legal abortion reduces crime rates. When every child is a wanted child, children are better cared for. They're better educated. They're better fed. They're healthier. Because abortion is a health issue.
Abortion is a medical procedure, sometimes a surgical one. It's between a woman and her doctor and anyone else *she* wants to bring into it. Women must have choices about their own health for the same reason all people must have choices about their health: because women know best of anyone what is right for their own situation. Abortion is a health issue.
#prochoicenz is organising a blogswarm one one theme: Abortion is a health issue, not a crime.
Abortion is in the Crimes Act in New Zealand. It shouldn't be. An abortion is a choice made by a woman about her own body. Having an abortion can save a woman's life: abortions are quite a bit safer than pregnancy, if they're performed legally. Women need to be able to make that choice for themselves - with their doctors: because abortion is a health issue.
Women who are forced into pregnancy can suffer physical and emotional complications. Forced pregnancies are bad for women, they make them unhealthy. Abortion is a health issue.
All things being equal, making it harder to get a legal abortion doesn't reduce the number of abortions in a country. It increases the number of illegal abortions in a country, which increases the number of complications from botched back-alley abortions. Abortion is a health issue.
There's one way in which abortion is related to crime, of course: making it easier to get a legal abortion reduces crime rates. When every child is a wanted child, children are better cared for. They're better educated. They're better fed. They're healthier. Because abortion is a health issue.
Abortion is a medical procedure, sometimes a surgical one. It's between a woman and her doctor and anyone else *she* wants to bring into it. Women must have choices about their own health for the same reason all people must have choices about their health: because women know best of anyone what is right for their own situation. Abortion is a health issue.
