11 June 2009 DILI East Timor (AP) - Women are dying in East Timor from the complications of secret abortions, and the government should make abortion legal and promote contraceptives, a report funded by the U.N. population agency said.Centuries of Portuguese colonial rule left a deeply entrenched Roman Catholic culture in the tiny Southeast Asian nation of less than a million people, and women have an average of seven children.
The report was released Wednesday, a week after East Timor's parliament passed a controversial law permitting abortions when a woman's life is at risk. Practitioners can still be punished by up to three years in prison for terminating a pregnancy in other cases.
Women use unsafe techniques to terminate pregnancies, such as drinking herbal cocktails, beating their bellies or inserting blunt instruments, the report said, citing hundreds of interviews with women, friends and doctors at several clinics.
The report was released by the U.N. Population Fund; the Alola Foundation, a women's group established by the wife of East Timor Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao; East Timor's Health Ministry; and the Graduate School for Health Practice at Charles Darwin University, Australia.
It recommends that 'modern methods of contraception should be promoted' and that conducting abortions should be removed from the criminal code.
Several Roman Catholic Church officials contacted Thursday by The Associated Press declined to comment.
http://www.pr-inside.com/report-east-timor-women-dying-of-r1314984.htm
See also:
2005 ETLJ 6 Morality, Religion and the Law - Abortion and Prostitution in East Timor
What happens when abortion in illegal
The Catholic Church and Abortion in Timor-Leste
East Timor Resisting Legalized Abortion UN Committee Calls Current Policies "Discriminatory"
Image added by ETLJB: The Roman Catholic Church's policy on abortion in East Timor.
1 comment:
Abortion is the same as kill baby who is innocent;furhtemore, it is not allowed in the christianity rule on the another word not follow GOD's rule which in fith part that is talk about "do not kill one another".
when we make it, we feel and tell to one another that it is very exciting and we don't care about the outcome and when it come we decide to aborci.and know we ask to the government to make it legal and then in the end we want to take it as a chance to make it agian,no.
the govenrment should take it as a crime because abortion is the baby......
in my oppinion the government should make any rule to forbid the human who are want to aboci the baby and finally the jail is special place for them.
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