For the past 50 years, many, if not most, conversations about abortion have revolved around ideas about “choice” and “individual rights.”A new conversation is starting to emerge, however, one that revolves around understanding that abortion is health care. South of the border, maternal mortality rates are already about twice as high as Canada’s. “Most of us have never lived in a time where we’ve ever experienced what maternal mortality looks like when abortion is not available.”Costescu, a Romanian-Canadian, notes that when his family’s home country criminalized abortion in 1966, maternal mortality rates rose to triple the European average. when the interests of the fetus and maternal health are in conflict. Now, given criminalization, women will be afraid to go for help since they might be suspected of having obtained an illegal abortion.

Source: thestar July 04, 2022 19:01 UTC