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They have criminalized it and put in place hospital policies that try to prevent abortions at all costs.

Are you against abortion?

Its opinion on abortion is nevertheless quite controversial.

And I think, miscarriage is an invisible loss.

And I'm definitely pro life I think abortion is murder.

Ms. Beydoun (Lebanon) said that no studies existed on abortion, and the Government of Lebanon undoubtedly needed to conduct such studies, particularly on clandestine abortion.

This excerpt was taken from the East Timor Law and Justice Bulletin (ETJL), in a post named What happens when abortion is illegal .

According to her, abortion was under debate at the conference with a strong impact on women who were discussing gender issues in East Timor

In a survey, 74 percent of women said that miscarriage, they felt, was partly their fault, which is awful.

It is not a long search to find both incest and the death of women through incompetent abortion agents in recent East Timorese history.

The evidence of that is that studies in rats, again with atrazine, show that the hormone imbalance atrazine generates causes abortion.

I believed that all lives regardless of whom they belonged to were absolutely sacred. This is why I stood against abortion, against war, against capital punishment.

And I think, with a death, you have a funeral, you celebrate the life, and there's a lot of community support, and it's something women don't have with miscarriage.

At the beginning of 2009, East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) posted about Women in Timor 'having unsafe abortions' and in the same month UNICEF reported that 1 in 35 East Timorese women die in childbirth.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the globe, the Portuguese blog Timor Lorosae Nação published a short post , which acted as a powerful trigger for a long discussion about abortion issues

At the beginning of June, a new Penal Code will take effect in East Timor, defending the criminalization of abortion, except in underage cases or when the mother's health is in jeopardy.

After all, this is an election year. And there are an estimated 70 million Catholics in the U.S., some of whom I would suspect have experienced divorce, practiced sex before marriage, had an abortion, and were (or know someone who have been) abused as a child by the clergy.

Even though Shaanxi officials are now under investigation and the state run media have stressed that late term abortions are illegal in China and should not be tolerated, netizens are venting much anger, and say that such inhumane tactics are common in spite of laws.