Tuesday, February 07, 2006

Guardian: 70,000 died from backstreet abortions

Britain Defies US with Funding to Boost Safe Abortion Services
Attempt to replace lost dollars after 'global gag'
70,000 died last year in backstreet operations

by Sarah Boseley

The British government will today publicly defy the United States by giving money for safe abortion services in developing countries to organisations that have been cut off from American funding.

Nearly 70,000 women and girls died last year because they went to back-street abortionists. Hundreds of thousands of others suffered serious injuries.

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