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About 54% of all maternal deaths in Africa are due to unsafe abortion because of restrictive legislation and lack of access to modern family planning methods …
… should reject leaders who do not treat the lives of mothers humanely saying that mothers should not be coerced into motherhood.
… women in developing world … are dying from unsafe abortion even though there are great advances in medical technology.
… ‘Women are not dying from the diseases that we cannot treat but they are dying because societies have yet to make the decision that their lives are worth saving’. …
In Uganda, the maternal mortality rate is at 435 deaths per 100,000 live births …
Melissa Maimann, Essential Birth Consulting 0400 418 448