Interesting how they stuck two unrelated statistics together: the number of estimated illegal abortions and the number of maternal deaths ascribed to abortion complications. The way they word it, illegal abortions lead to 70,000 maternal deaths. The truth is that 70,000 women and 46 million babies are killed every year by abortion, legal and illegal.
Of these, 20m are illegal, resulting in the deaths of some 70,000 women, according to the World Health Organisation.
I also find it interesting that allowing abortion only for the life of the mother was grouped under total prohibition. Lastly, the US is one of the least restrictive countries and is grouped with China, which practices forced abortions against the mothers' will. And yet, the article says America is becoming more restrictive while Mexico is decriminalizing it. I wouldn't say the measure of tightening to loosening is any where near even between the two.
