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Letting women die because of unsafe abortions is awesome!

Isn’t is cute when our politicians decide that keeping the zany religious fruit-bats in their ‘base’ happy is more important that saving women’s lives?  Just ask our lovely PM Steven Harper all about appeasing the religious zealotry that makes up a portion of his base on how the blood of women will appease their ignoble quest to save ‘life’.

“According to the World Health Organization, 21.6 million women experience an unsafe abortion worldwide each year. The 47,000 who die make up about 13 per cent of annual maternal deaths.

As part of Millennium Development Goal No. 5, which aims to reduce the maternal mortality rate by 75 per cent from 1990 to 2015, the United Nations secretary general came up with a global strategy for women and children’s health. Among other things, it includes saving the lives of women who experience unsafe abortions.”

Letting 47,000 women die from unsafe abortions is par for the course for our noble “pro-life” constituency (because they love fetuses more that women).  I may have already commented on this untidy dilemma our pro-life friends find themselves in.

Now what is our besieged PM to do?

Step One – Waffle with vague generalities about consensus. 

The PM:

“We’re trying to rally a broad public consensus behind what we’re doing, and you can’t rally a consensus on that issue, as you know well in this country,” he said.

“It’s not only controversial here, it’s controversial and often illegal in many recipient nations.”

Harper doesn’t agree with the suggestion that he is exporting his beliefs abroad to other countries by not funding abortion services.

“We’re really not taking a position on that. We have taxpayers’ money and we have great needs,” he said to Thibedeau.

Step Two – Concede that the anti-choicers have a large home in his base and pissing them off makes Harper have a sad.

“And frankly, there’s more than enough things that we can finance, including contraception, without getting into an issue that really would be extremely divisive for Canadians and donors.”

Step Three – Say that supporting contraception is enough and to those bitchez that do get knocked up, so sorry about your luck… luv Canada. 

Melinda Gates:

“One of the things we don’t invest in enough, as a world, are contraceptives. We put women in that situation because they don’t have access and when you talk to them in the developing world, they say, ‘I want that tool, I want that shot I used to get,'” she said.

“We can work upstream on these issues to help women where they are, so you don’t ever put them in that situation, and to me, that’s the smart investment to make.”

So yah, enjoy your unsafe abortions wimmenz cause Canada just ran out fucks to give about your situation.

The NDP Hélène Laverdière critic rightly lambasted Harper and his anti-choice concerns.

“Well, there’s 47,000 women who die each year from unsafe abortions,” she said in an interview with CBC News.

“So, if we want to save every woman, we have to address that issue too.”

According to the World Health Organization, 21.6 million women experience an unsafe abortion worldwide each year. The 47,000 who die make up about 13 per cent of annual maternal deaths.

This from a letter sent to Harper on May 28th:

   “Global parliamentarians recommend that women’s reproductive health can only be achieved when the human rights of women, girls and youth are realized.

So if the abortion debate is over in Canada and abortion is a legal and reasonable part of the umbrella of women’s reproductive health, then what exactly is your problem Stephen?  Or do women get their rights only when it is politically expedient?

[Source for Quotes: cbc.ca]