The World Health Organization Sees the Big Picture Health


The World Health Organization (WHO) issued a report condemning restrictions to abortion services. This is what any legitimate group concludes when it leaves religion out of the calculation. The laughable notion that anti abortion is separate from religion needs to be regarded as ridiculous. 

The religious right mostly does not like the WHO. It has one rule about health organizations: If they are against abortion, good organization. For abortion rights, bad. 

WHO has been influential in countries which need a legitimate source to justify abortion rights. I've been reading again about the success of abortion rights in Central and South America. These are countries where the Catholic hierarchy has made it views the views of governments. Now that is changing, three countries there have stopped criminalizing abortion. 

The pattern in Central and South America is the same as everywhere else. WHO finds even where abortion is not legal in an entire country, middle class and up get abortions. Poor and rural women do not. Somehow anti abortion zealots, including Catholic clergy, cheer at this. Perhaps poor people are necessary for the Catholic Church to survive--the church prospers from poor people so it needs more of them. The big picture is that health care needs to be available to rich and poor alike. 

Giving birth is statistically one of the top causes of death of women in poor countries. It ranks high even in non poor countries. These are preventable death. If a woman does not want to go through the risk of giving birth she should not be required to do so. It is inhuman to criminalize abortion. 

Fighting for abortion rights is fighting for women's rights. It will not be easy. Think of slavery in the U.S. It existed for 400 years. Putting down women has existed for at least that long. Abortion rights came along in the U.S. 50 years ago but the fight never really ended. Like slavery, it will end eventually because freedom, including freedom for women, is an ideal that is destined to win out.


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  1. JinxMarch 14, 2022 at 6:48 PM

    Years ago the USA put restrictions on their family planning grants to WHO. One of these restrictions was no US dollars to any organizations that did abortions. Thus, the restrictions pulled money from family planning grants and significantly increased the death and permanent injury to both Mother's and babies. Biden restored them in 2021 https://www.unfpa.org/press/un-sexual-and-reproductive-health-agency-welcomes-usa-intention-reinstate-funding-millions

    One of the more common injuries is an obstetric fistula.

    https://fistulacare.org/what-is-fistula/obstetric-fistula



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