In Kenya a 2004 nationwide study showed that about 300,000 abortions are performed each year in the country, causing an estimated 20,000 women and girls to be hospitalized with dangerous complications. More than 40 percent of Kenya’s maternal mortality rate is due to unsafe abortions.
Alexia Kelley, co-founder of Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good and newly appointed Director of Faith-based and Community Partnerships at the Dept. of Health and Human Services believes a progressive agenda will produce pro-life results.
Catholics for Choice criticizes the appointment of anti-choice Catholic advocate and former ED of Catholics for the Common Good Alexia Kelley to key HHS position.
In all the extensive coverage of the assassination in his church of Dr. George Tiller by a murderer affiliated with extremist right-wing groups, little has been said to shed light on what late-term abortions are, who has them and why.
In 2007 the Mexican Supreme Court upheld a law which decriminalized abortion in Mexico City. Since then, twelve Mexican states have approved constitutional reforms defining personhood as beginning at the moment of conception.
A UN Panel featuring two women with different contexts for understanding women's health demonstrates that making progress in securing a just and healthy life for every woman remains a challenge of attitude and articulation.
A constitutional amendment in the Dominican Republic asserting a right to life beginning at conception contributes toward virtually eliminating women's access to care in Latin America.
