1,000 women hospitalised in Portugal after backstreet abortions

[SharonAnn]

1,000 women hospitalised in Portugal after backstreet abortions

Wed Nov 3, 7:09 AM ET Health - AFP

LISBON (AFP) - More than 1,000 women in Portugal had to be hospitalised last year due to complications following backstreet abortions in a country whose laws forbid legal abortion, health statistics showed.
The figure "clashed with the 123 clandestine abortions officially identified by the authorities last year," said a report by the public health authority DGS, published Wednesday in the newspaper Publico.

DGS said the contradiction was due to the fact that public statistics covered only officially proved illegal terminations. The number of clandestine abortions annually in Portugal is reckoned at between approximately 20,000 and 40,000.
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The practice is illegal in Portugal except when the mother's life is in danger or in certain specified conditions, such as the risk of damage to physical or mental health, sexual violence or possible congenital deformity.

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[fishface]

1. Welcome to the wacky world of Fundie land..

sit a spell, take your shoes off..

[Sub Atomic]

2. Replace Portugal with Portland

and you're looking at the US in two years.

:mad: