Will this happen if America bans abortion?

Question

Kenyan hospitals overwhelmed by women injured by illegal abortion.

Unsafe abortion is the leading cause of gynecological emergencies in Kenya, where the procedure is illegal. Several studies all yielded the same conclusion: Hospitals are overwhelmed with women injured (and sometimes killed) by illegal abortion. In one study, 43 percent of all women admitted for gynecological disorders were women who had unsafe abortions; in another, unsafe abortions accounted for 60 percent of gynecological emergencies; in another, 87 percent. More than half of the unsafe abortions in the second study were procured by girls under the age of 14. These women will get it somehow.

http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2007/04/22/kenyan-hospitals-overwhelmed-by-women-injured-by-illegal-abortion-thank-a-pro-lifer/

Answer 1

This is an excellent question and these statistics can very well become America's.

I do believe that no matter what the government does to ban abortion it will still happen.

Some can argue that there will be less, which is likely, but I believe there will be more unsafe abortions if a total ban is in the future.

No matter how much some people dislike the idea of a woman terminating her pregnancy... she will find a way to do it.

Answer 2

Why abortion needs to remain legal: Abortions would continue even if they were illegal. The result would be more women dying and suffering complications from improperly performed abortions. Unlike murder, theft, or rape, an abortion does not impact another life. Until the fetus is capable of some rudimentary awareness (after the first trimester), it is a mass of developing cells with less capacity for pain or emotion than most animals. It is a potential life, whereas the mother's life is fully realized and therefore the impact on the mother's life takes precedent. It is justice neither to the mother nor the child, if the issue is forced. Adoption is not always an alternative as there can be factors in each case which make carrying a pregnancy to term just as devastating as raising the child. Edit: *point to Ideo plastic's answer* Viva le prevention!!

Answer 3

Not to that extent, but yes, that would be the trend. According to this extremely PRO abortion site, an estimated 1.2 million illegal abortions were performed annually in the states before the Roe v. Wade decision. The mortality rate was only 0.417% (an estimated 5,000 deaths per year, total). So don't let the "back alley" rhetoric fool you, illegal abortions were almost as safe as the legal ones. The estimated number of procedures performed illegally nearly match the current data on legal ones performed today, suggesting the estimate is exaggerated or legalization had no effect on demand for the service...

http://www.feminist.org/courts/roe.asp

Answer 4

As Americans we should go about the issue in a different way. A woman should never ever feel that she has no other option than abortion. We should stop looking at pregnant teens as "sluts" because face it, many teens do have sex. Maybe we should instead of teaching that abortion is a good option, we should teach children and teens that being pregnant is fine and there are plenty of ways to deal with it. I feel like people are quick to use abortion as a form of birth control and this is terrible wrong. As a woman I feel think way and I wish others did. As for making abortion illegal, it would make people realize that it is not acceptable. And for those who worry about back alley abortions, any woman willing to risk her own life to kill her child obviously has a problem and needs to be admitted for psychiatric care. There are plenty of programs in place so such as adoption, or leaving the child at a fire station or hospital, I don't see why we abortion is neccessary in non life threatening cases.

Answer 5

If the US once again bans abortions, rich women will still have them and poor women will look for illegal ones. Some will die. Others will be injured in the attempt.
I am a feminist and a Liberal, but I think that the ease with which a girl/woman can obtain an abortion in the US has cheapened our view of human life.

Answer 6

Your defense of abortion is to say that if we stop abortion, a lot of people will get hurt, many of them dying. Maybe you do not understand the view of those that are against abortion. You are arguing that it is better to kill the young baby legally than make young women risk death to kill their young baby. In any option, abortion ends in death.

The statistics that were mentioned in the article are truly horrifying. That does not mean that what happened in Kenya would happen in America. Kenya has a median age of 18.6 years, with 50% of the population living in poverty and 40% unemployment. With a young, unemployed population, many young women turn to selling their bodies for food and money. This is not something specific to Kenya, but often happens when these circumstances arise. The answer to these problems is not simple. They cannot be answered simply or quickly.

Simply legalizing abortion will not fix the problems of Kenya. With nearly 1.5 million citizens with HIV/AIDS, Kenya has many problems. Instead of taking a horrible tragedy that is happening half across the world and using it to advance your own political agenda, instead see if there is something that you can do about it.

If you do care to do something, check out World Vision. They have programs to help people get out of situations leading to death and provide options that lead to life.

Answer 7

Abortion should be legal to rape victims and women who are at risk for their lives or the lively hood of the possible surviving child.

That said... IF CONDOMS AND DAY AFTER PILLS WERE AVAILABLE AT WAL-MART, HALF OF THIS CRAP WOULD NOT BE AN ISSUE. People are always going to be horny, ITS CALLED ANIMAL INSTINCT. Give your kids condoms when they are sexually active. TALK to your children, it is pathetic the relationship most parents DO NOT EVEN HAVE with their kids. As though the uneasiness felt in such conversations is worse than the result of not having them... Kids already think about and practice more, with every new generation, than those who came before them; especially when compared to their parents in most cases!

Answer 8

i promise good abortions if it becomes illegal in the US, i have a shop vac and all the other tools required. i hope we never go back to the days of pushing the women down the stairs and hoping for the best, or feeding her a tape worm and hoping it takes a left at the Y.

Answer 9

I don't think so... you are trying to compare two societies that are socially in different worlds. In the US birth control is available on every corner and rape is much lower in this country. Making abortion illegal might just make some of our "free birds" think before they act. It may inconvenience them to get birth control... but in the long run things would be a great deal better... especially for the women. Abortion in this country needs to stop being a form of birth control.

Answer 10

How many people are injured through the use of illegal drugs in this country everyday? These drugs are illegal but people still get them somehow. This same argument can be made about any banned substance or act.