You know what really grinds my gears? RAPE-UBLICANS

[Rahul]

No, they may not, but you know what the solution to that is? Don’t have an abortion.

How generous of you to tell everyone else how to live. How many times have you been pregnant?

How do you know this?

I can read.

Unsafe abortion is a significant cause of maternal mortality and morbidity in the world. Most unsafe abortions occur where abortion is illegal,[3] or in developing countries where affordable well-trained medical practitioners are not readily available,[4][5] or where modern contraceptives are unavailable.[6] About one in eight pregnancy-related deaths worldwide is associated with unsafe abortion.[7]
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The World Health Organization (WHO) estimated in 2011 that each year nearly 42 million women faced with unintended pregnancies have abortions, of which 20 million are unsafe, mostly in countries where abortion is illegal.[3][8] According to WHO and Guttmacher, approximately 68,000 women die annually as a result of complications of unsafe abortion; and between two million and seven million women each year survive unsafe abortion but sustain long-term damage or disease (incomplete abortion, infection (sepsis), haemorrhage, and injury to the internal organs, such as puncturing or tearing of the uterus).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsafe_abortion

Additionally, even if that were true (which I doubt it is), so what?

You're one sick fuck. I guess you don't have any female family members that you give the slightest shit about. Well I do.

We do not base our laws on such reasoning, if it could be shown that illegalizing rape doesn’t actually reduce the number of rapes I wouldn’t suddenly support the legalization of rape. Rape should be illegal because it’s immoral, abortion should be illegal because it too is immoral.

Christians don't base their laws on rational reasons. I disagree that it is immoral. Who are you to dictate to everyone else what is and is not moral?

And the rape analogy is shit. And you know it. Utter shit.

Apparently not if there were just as many abortions prior to the legalization of abortion (as you claim) and yet there’s no statistical difference in the mortality rate amongst women during those years.

I like how you pulled that statement right out of your ass. What else do you have shoved up there?

Where were all the dead women? There should be hundreds of thousands of them. Use all of the scare tactics you want, but they do not support your argument any.

Not scare tactics. Facts support my statements. Facts. I know you religious types have a weak grasp of what a fact is.

21.6 million women experience an unsafe abortion worldwide each year; 18.5 million of these occur in developing countries
47 000 women die from complications of unsafe abortion each year.
Deaths due to unsafe abortion remain close to 13% of all maternal deaths.

http://www.who.int/reproductivehealth/to...nitude/en/

Are you going to keep making blanket false assertions with nothing to back you up or can we act like mature rational adults?