Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Maternal Death Statistics

The statistic that I am seeing often repeated is that 70,000 women die in the world every year from "botched abortions"; ergo Western nations need to pay for the building and operation of abortion clinics in every nation of the world so that we can start saving lives. Because after all, saving lives is why this maternal health debate matters. Saving the lives of mothers, 70,000 of them every year.

How many die from breast cancer every year? According to the World Health Organization, 476,000. Ovary cancer kills 134,000 every year. Traffic accidents kill 1.2 million people globally every year. 137,000 people die every year from iron deficiency. Childhood-cluster diseases kill over a million annually. 4 million people die from respiratory infections each year. Tuberculosis still claims 1.5 million yearly victims. Syphilis murders 157,000 per anum. Cardiovascular diseases kill over 16 million people in one earth revolution around the sun. We must do something to save the 873,000 who die every year from self inflicted injuries. Diarrhoeal diseases kill 1.8 million.

I don't know how many lives they expect to save for each dollar spent on safe abortion clinics in Africa, but if we focus our attention on the things that kill the greatest number of people then we can really maximize the life saving effectiveness of our aid dollars. We can save hundreds of thousands more lives if we set up safe Diarrhea clinics across the globe. Because this entire debate started by the Liberal Party of Canada is all about saving lives. Isn't it?

8 comments:

  1. Every time I hear a study, opinion paper written by the left, my first reaction is st say prove it.

    So lets ask WHO, where, how many, in what country etc.

    I suppose we could also ask them to name the people.

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  2. Excellent final question!

    Do these silly opposition and msm who are demanding abortion clinics realize that most of these countries would not even allow an abortion let alone a clinic to perform them.

    But they don't need to think about that, because as you say, that isn't really the issue, is it?

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  3. Clean safe drinking water. Lack of access to modern toilets and proper sanitation is a major contributor to water-borne diseases that have killed an estimated 4.5 million children under the age of five in the last three years.
    Instead of being helpful they would rather scuttle the Maternal Health debate. It is disgusting the games in Ottawa and the Media who ignore the real problems in Africa.

    With the armed conflict the most successful countries don't try to help everyone but try to get their resources to where it will do the most good.

    We should walk away from countries where corruption and conflict is not going to end. Find countries that will allow our aid to be delivered and actually save lives.

    The Liberals, radical leftists are free to book a flight to and bring their own doctors for the Congo abortion clinics.

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  4. It never was the issue.. I seriously have a problem funding abortions in other countries given I don't agree we should do it here except for those situations where the mother's life is in danger, rape or incest. For those that believe that Joe and Sue Canadian are somehow responsible for their botched efforts to "AVOID" a pregnancy ...live with the consequences of your actions and grow up! Sex makes babies...sorry..but the truth hurts sometimes.

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  5. Aborting Africas babys saves lives!I wish some Liberal/NDP would show me a jar of assorted black baby parts,that they personally counted to ensure the procedure was successfull and explain exactly how this save lives.Is there not something racist in advocating depopulating Africas children instead of ensuring an environment that has a future.

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  6. For every day the leftists in Canada hold up this aid, thousands of women and their children die.

    Why send any aid at all if you save 70,000 mothers that then abort their babies, or two or three? Isn't the best case scenario a break even?

    Sleep well Jr. Marxists, after you contemplate that your actions have murderous consequences.

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  7. "We should walk away from countries where corruption and conflict is not going to end. Find countries that will allow our aid to be delivered and actually save lives."

    CanadianSense makes an excellent point. The aim should be on helping the countries help themselves by rewarding success rather than failures.

    I'm generally against most foreign aid but not all. However, I am not an isolationist. For example, I think Ron Paul is a pansy jackass when it comes to foreign policy.

    Last I checked he was also isolationist when it comes to our ally/capitalistic democracy Israel.

    Well, "after Saturday comes Sunday" and if he can't figure that out by now, then he hasn't a clue.

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

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  8. Thanks for the fact check Iceman on other death stats. Not to say that the 70,000 a year should be tossed aside, it is still a sad statistic. However, it IS a small drop in the bucket when compared to the numbers of deaths of diseases we are trying so hard to fight and find cures or at least better treatments for. The number of Cancer-related deaths in the US alone trumps that stat, let alone other diseases and disorders. Every country with the ways and means is trying to find it's way to the core of what causes cancer, but the topic-du-jour is financial support of abortion, something that is largely a lifestyle-choice, not a genetic or environmental mishap like cancer appears to be.

    In a related note, my local paper ran a letter to the editor yesterday where the writer called the Conservative party a dictator for stopping funding to 9 women's groups, but then at the bottom of his letter he called on the federal govt to end it's philandering with special interest groups. Ummm... hello sir... those women's groups ARE special interest groups lol. It shows a complete lack of understanding of what has been going on here!

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