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Anti-choice researchers in Chile try to hide illegal abortion – and women who die from it

By choicejoyce | Published: June 14, 2012
TweetThis article is cross-posted from Rabble.ca. Anti-choice researchers recently published a dangerously flawed study that examined various factors associated with Chile’s declining maternal mortality rate, and concluded — incredibly — that the legal status of abortion has no influence on maternal deaths in Chile, a country that completely prohibited abortion for any reason in 1989. [...]
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Outstanding Advances In Maternal Health Solutions In Rwanda

By teenadvocatedan | Published: September 22, 2010
TweetCrossposted on Amplify Maternal mortality is one of the most heartbreaking and devastating challenges women and families face in the developing world. The leading cause of death for young women ages 15 to 19 in developing countries is complications from pregnancy, especially in sub-Saharan Africa(1). Also in sub-Saharan Africa, 2.2 million young women have unintentional [...]
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