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Jamaica Committee Examining Legalizing Abortion

Jamaica Committee Examining Legalizing Abortion

Kingston, Jamaica (LifeNews.com) -- The Jamaica governmental committee evaluating a proposal to legalize abortion continued its debate on Thursday. One side focused on deaths of women engaging in illegal abortions while the other said making abortions legal won't make them safer. The government is considering a proposal to legalize abortions for any reason up to 22 weeks of pregnancy. One member of the panel, a Dr. Hall, talked about a recent case of a girl who wanted to get an abortion early in pregnancy but didn't have the funds. By the time she had enough money to pay the illegal abortion practitioner, she suffered complications after an abortion done at 24 weeks into pregnancy and died. But Radio Jamaica reported on comments from Senator Dwight Nelson, who said more must be done to provide women with good health care and pregnancy resources rather than pushing abortion. He said making abortion legal doesn't make it safer for women. "Abortion and its complications are very significant contributors to mortality, adolescent mortality and therefore the solution in addressing this is to make an illegal act legal?" he asked rhetorically.
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Abortion Legalizing Examining Committee Jamaica

This is going to be hard to push through given that Jamaica has one of the highest rates of churches per ca pita in the world. Will be interesting to see how it unfolds.