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Recent years have revealed the different experiences of abortion in
the UK and the USA. The United States has a higher abortion rate
accompanied by a higher political profile for the issue. In fact,
one of George W. Bush's first acts in 2001 was to ban American
funding for overseas organizations carrying out abortions. The USA
has also experienced a higher degree of abortion-related violence,
with several people linked to abortion services being targeted and
even killed. Compelling and enlightening in its approach, this
invigorating volume compares the two countries' abortion laws and
outlines the distinctions. The usually conservative American
society has a much more liberal abortion law than the United
Kingdom, whose female citizens can obtain an abortion relatively
easily although in fact they do not have the right to choose. This
stimulating volume examines the comparative positions taken by each
country and makes important suggestions for the future.
Nine out of ten infant deaths occur unnecessarily. India has a rate
of imprisonment of only one twentieth of the USA. Nevertheless it
manages to have a lower homicide rate. In 2010 Honduras had
proprtionately one thousand five hundred times as many deaths from
firearms compared to the UK and Norway. If men had the same
incarceration rate as women then over nine out of ten prisons could
close. In 2010 Chad had a maternal mortality rate, which has over a
hundred times that of France and Australia. Worldwide two in five
adults are overweight and yet 13% are undernourished. Due to
pollution more than five million pieces of plastic, collectively
weighing nearly 269,000 tonnes are floating in the world's oceans
damaging the food chain. About 12 billion bullets are produced
every year, which is almost enough to kill every person on the
planet twice. Worldwide two thirds of illiterate adults are women.
Unsafe abortion led to 47,000 deaths in 2008. These were nearly all
in the poor countries.
Unsafe abortion remains one of the most neglected sexual and
reproductive health problems according to the World Health
Organisation. In recent years it has been estimated that nearly 44
million abortions occur annually leading to around 47,000 deaths.
At this rate a woman will die of an unsafe abortion every 11
minutes. Bringing together a wealth of information from around the
world, this book argues that the time has come for a great change
in legislation, advocating a shift towards the legalization of
abortion to improve the health of women in poorer countries. With
attention to circumstances in each of the major continental
regions, an outline of the global situation is provided to reveal
the major trends in the provision and procurement of abortion, as
well their effects. Presenting data drawn from over a hundred
countries covering over ninety per cent of the world's population,
based on published statistical information, changes to legal
frameworks, court cases and the accounts of local commentators and
activists, Unsafe Abortion and Women's Health will be of interest
to scholars and students of the sociology of medicine, gender and
reproductive health, social and health policy and feminist studies.
Recent years have revealed the different experiences of abortion in
the UK and the USA. The United States has a higher abortion rate
accompanied by a higher political profile for the issue. In fact,
one of George W. Bush's first acts in 2001 was to ban American
funding for overseas organizations carrying out abortions. The USA
has also experienced a higher degree of abortion-related violence,
with several people linked to abortion services being targeted and
even killed. Compelling and enlightening in its approach, this
invigorating volume compares the two countries' abortion laws and
outlines the distinctions. The usually conservative American
society has a much more liberal abortion law than the United
Kingdom, whose female citizens can obtain an abortion relatively
easily although in fact they do not have the right to choose. This
stimulating volume examines the comparative positions taken by each
country and makes important suggestions for the future.
Nine out of ten infant deaths occur unnecessarily. India has a rate
of imprisonment of only one twentieth of the USA. Nevertheless it
manages to have a lower homicide rate. In 2010 Honduras had
proprtionately one thousand five hundred times as many deaths from
firearms compared to the UK and Norway. If men had the same
incarceration rate as women then over nine out of ten prisons could
close. In 2010 Chad had a maternal mortality rate, which has over a
hundred times that of France and Australia. Worldwide two in five
adults are overweight and yet 13% are undernourished. Due to
pollution more than five million pieces of plastic, collectively
weighing nearly 269,000 tonnes are floating in the world's oceans
damaging the food chain. About 12 billion bullets are produced
every year, which is almost enough to kill every person on the
planet twice. Worldwide two thirds of illiterate adults are women.
Unsafe abortion led to 47,000 deaths in 2008. These were nearly all
in the poor countries.
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