http://www.opendemocracy.net/blog/jessica_reed/the_choir Comments for "The choir , " en http://www.opendemocracy.net/blog/jessica_reed/the_choir <p> <img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2017/1747155089_7e4c36bbf6_o.jpg" alt="" width="360" height="38" /><br /> </p> <p> <strong>by Jane Gabriel</strong> </p> <p> &quot;I am a man out of a woman&quot; - so began the rallying cry of one of women&#39;s human rights lifelong advocates, <a href="http://worldleaders.columbia.edu/bio_sai.html">Professor Fred Sai</a>, at the opening of the world&#39;s first International Conference on Safe Abortion (<a href="htttp://www.globalsafeabortion.org">MSI Global Safe Abortion Conference</a>). </p> <p> The numbers of women dying are appalling: 100 million women alive today will have an unsafe abortion and more than 13% of them will die as a direct result. 68,000 women die a year as a direct result of an unsafe abortion - that is one woman every 8 minutes. Of the 42 million known abortions a year, 20 million of them will be unsafe. Professor Sai came from Ghana to London as a medical student in 1949, one of the nurses he trained with at the time became pregnant, she swallowed sleeping pills and died weeks later. He asked himself &quot;What kind of law leads to this lonely death?&quot; That was the point at which Professor Sai decided that his life&#39;s work would be to provide safe abortion. </p>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/blog/jessica_reed/the_choir" class="read-more" title="Read the rest of this posting.">Read the rest of this post...</a><p><a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/blog/jessica_reed/the_choir">read more</a></p> http://www.opendemocracy.net/blog/jessica_reed/the_choir#comment Jane Gabriel oD Today 5050 Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:30:59 +0100 34934 at http://www.opendemocracy.net