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Illegal Abortions Lead to Women’s Health Crisis in Haiti

Illegal Abortions Lead to Women’s Health Crisis in Haiti | Fabulous Feminism | Scoop.it

After three days of vomiting, heavy bleeding and agonizing pain, she stumbled into a maternity hospital. Doctors rushed her into surgery where they stopped the bleeding, and repaired her perforated uterus, botched in the first abortion attempt...

 

Abortion is illegal in Haiti but women and girls are losing their uteruses and their lives as they turn to clandestine, increasingly deadly ways to terminate their pregnancies. These unsafe abortions are leading to a public health crisis in a region with one of the world’s highest rates of unintended pregnancies, experts say.


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Is this the world we want, the America we are trying to build?

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Is this the world we want, the America we are trying to build?

Deanna Dahlsad's curator insight, November 26, 2013 8:35 AM

Is this the world we want, the America we are trying to build?

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My Left Breast: The 4 Books that I Found To Be The Most Helpful During Breast Cancer

My Left Breast: The 4 Books that I Found To Be The Most Helpful During Breast Cancer | Fabulous Feminism | Scoop.it
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