A Woman's Choice

So I took a week off because for some reason I could not get into my blog right after the elections, did anyone else have this problem?

Well with Obama elected we have a better chance for reproductive rights for women around the world, less chance of overpopulating the overpopulation, more birth control/pregnancy prevention, less death through childbirth and then all the ramifications that stem from this. Less hunger and poverty to name but two.

I found some staggering numbers to ponder:

"Tamara Kreinin, executive director of Women and Population at the United Nations Foundation says that each contribution of $34 million the Bush Administration has withheld each year from UNFPA could have helped UNFPA prevent 2 million unintended pregnancies, 800,000 abortions, 4,700 mothers’ deaths, and more than 77,000 infant and child deaths.

On any day 1,369 women die as a complication of pregnancy or childbirth for lack of pre-natal care or a trained birth attendant who could offer emergency obstetric care. Multiply 1,369 by 365 and its 500,000 per year give or take. One million children are left motherless each year because of maternal deaths.

On any day at least 110,000 women have abortions, half of which are illegal, unsafe, risky. Multiply 110,000 by 365 and you get 40 million give or take. That represents twenty percent of the pregnancies. The primary reason for these abortions is lack of access to family planning. Two hundred thirteen of these women die and several thousand suffer temporary or permanent disability.

Multiply 213 by 365 and you get 78,000 per year, give or take. Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times (November2, 2008): “We must cooperate with other countries on humanitarian efforts, including family planning. One of the Bush follies that has bewildered the world has been the vacuous refusal to support family planning through the United Nations Population Fund....It’s difficult to think of any person alive today whose policies have led to more unnecessary abortions worldwide than Mr. Bush.”

Barack Obama will make sure that UNFPA has the support it deserves from our country and remove many of the onerous limitations imposed by the Bush Administration on our own government and on NGO’s who take care of the world’s women. When the world takes care of women, women take care of the world."

JANE ROBERTS: WOMEN OF THE WORLD CAN REJOICE WITH OBAMA VICTORY: 05/11/2008 (MaximsNews Network)

A Woman's Choice.

I cannot allow all the years of my life,
To rest upon my brother's decision,
Neither do I consider myself
Superior to any other species on earth.
I, decide for myself.
From: You and I, We are the Majority series.



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