[lightman]

Ping.

[Mrs. Don-o]

"Argentina’s health ministry has estimated that hundreds of women die from secret, unsafe procedures, making it the leading cause of maternal death. An additional 45,000 to 60,000 women are hospitalised each year due to complications..."

That speaks poorly of abortion itself, since it's likely that most illegal abortions in Argentina, like most illegal abortions in pre-Roe America, are done by doctors. Yes, dangerous abortions done by the same doctors who would be doing them if they were legal.

Those figures, for the most middle-class country in SA with at most 12 million women of reproductive age (12-50), are not credible, and I would bet my annual income that they're flat-out manufactured, just as NARALs' pre-Roe figures of U.S. maternal death and injury from illegal abortion, were manufactured by Larry Lader and Bernard Nathanason--- as Nathanson himself admitted.

Yes, even if the figures come from Argentina's Health Ministry.

I stand willing to be corrected, if anybody's got better figures.

[Mrs. Don-o]

The Argentina Health Ministry is quite explicitly biased in favor of abortion, as documented here (LINK):

"When he made the announcement in March, [Argentine President Mauricio] Macri vowed that the federal government would stay out of the debate. However, his health minister lobbied on national television for the bill to pass and addressed both the Senate and the Chambers of Deputies during a series of public hearings."

[Constitution Day]

Argentina's Senate Rejects Historic Bill to Legalize Abortion