The Netherlands set up global safe abortion fund to counter Trump cuts

Canada will increase its funding to international organizations that provide abortion-related services after U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order blocking American funding for those services.

"Women's rights is too important for us to make a compromise on that."
- Marie-Claude Bibeau, Minister for International Development, on whether the Trudeau government is fearful of angering Trump.

In an interview with As It Happens guest host Helen Mann on Friday, Minister of International Development Marie-Claude Bibeau said the Liberal government would support a Dutch-led initiative to fund international programs supporting women's reproductive health.

"I think that restricting the access to abortion does not reduce abortion. It only increases the number of unsafe abortions and it endangers the lives of women," Bibeau said.

Dutch International Development Minister Lilianne Ploumen said earlier this week that as many as 20 countries had indicated their support for the effort to replace the $600 million U.S. in funding that will be lost because of Trump's decision.

"Yes, we will support the [Dutch] effort," Bibeau said. "Will it be directly through the fund or indirectly, this is not clear yet. But, I assure my colleague, the Minister from the Netherlands, that we will increase our funding to sexual and reproductive health and rights. This is definitely a very important priority for our government."

Look at that! The rest of the world stepping up and helping make the donuts!

So someone, not you, means that its better to let these women die.

By removing funding from organisations that also deal with malaria and other child health issues, the policy could threaten progress on many fronts, including efforts to reduce HIV-related deaths and new infections, and decrease childhood mortality through malaria prevention and treatment initiatives and immunisation programs.

Unsafe abortion is one of the five main causes of maternal mortality, accounting for 13% of cases, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
The Mexico City Policy is based on the US Republican party's pro-life position, which has resonance with much of socially conservative Africa, where abortion is largely illegal.
Abortion on demand can only be offered in four out of 54 African countries, according to the UN's World Abortion Policies report.
But the continent carries the biggest burden of unsafe abortions, according to the WHO.
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"Without US funding, from 2017 to 2020, over 1.8 million unintended pregnancies will probably occur; more than 660,000 abortions will happen and over 10,000 maternal deaths will not be averted," says Effiom Effiom, country director for Marie Stopes in Nigeria.

So someone, not you, means that its better to let these women die.

Plus, with the morning after pill, why are women that don't want a baby getting pregnant?

My question is, how many of these women that do get pregnant, and not ready/able to care for an infant by themselves, had some goal of having the father of the conception marry them.

For all the abortions, safe or unsafe, a human life is ended (aka, dies).

Notice how many people of the Catholic faith are pro-abortion.

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For all the abortions, safe or unsafe, a human life is ended (aka, dies).

no. no it doesn't.

Notice how many people of the Catholic faith are pro-abortion

Again, I don't get here, too, what thise response has to do with the fact that the Netherlands set up a global safe abortion fund to counter Trump cuts nor with the graph, McG responded to (deaths after unsafe abortions).

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Plus, with the morning after pill, why are women that don't want a baby getting pregnant?

There are many reasons. Birth control can fail and the woman might not even know she's pregnant until she misses a period. Not every woman has easy access to levonorgestrel, either. (There was a Catholic pharmacist in my town who wouldn't stock Plan B.) Some women are too poor, others might be prevented by a controlling partner. Some might have wanted a baby until discovering later in the pregnancy that the fetus is deformed or that childbirth poses a lethal risk.

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My question is, how many of these women that do get pregnant, and not ready/able to care for an infant by themselves, had some goal of having the father of the conception marry them.

Basically, it's none of your business.