Women turn to backstreet abortions during coronavirus | BBC Stories

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Published 2020-06-29
In some European countries, hospitals have stopped performing abortions. In others, where abortion is severely restricted, women have been unable to travel to get treatment elsewhere.

In the past few weeks we’ve spoken to women who have resorted to backstreet abortions, and others left with no choice but to continue with unwanted pregnancies.

Human rights organisations are now urging countries to make sure abortions are safely available.

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All Comments (21)
  • @miles4060
    I don't think I will ever be able to go through abortion even if the situation is tough but I will never condemn any woman for it. Children are murdered and abused every day, but society only cares about fetuses. As soon as the child is born you don't give a damn about it. You don't care whether it will live in a dysfunctional family, in poverty, etc. But the fetus is precious. How so?
  • @SchmackOmoli
    I’m sorry for all the women having gone through an abortion and reading some of the comments below. We are all entitled to an opinion but remember, you’re in control of your mind and body.
  • @NBN1717
    Unspoken concerns of the lockdown 😭
  • Only woman can decide if she could have or no abortion. And both ways are right.
  • @hkbabel
    I am NOT going to read the comments as I know I'll have a stroke, and I have to care for a woman with severe dementia so I have to stay sane myself :-) Thank you BBC Stories for uploading this important video - greetings from a pro choice citizen of North Carolina USA
  • My dad told me if I get pregnant I’m not staying in the house he said I got find somewhere else to go just wait until I’m married got place and job a vehicle and I’m stable
  • @JC.Holland
    If you're sin free , then step forward and throw the stone. 🥀
  • @xavier090687
    it hurts when u want a child and there are those that just terminate those babies.
  • @susan8793
    I fought, internally warred, with self worth, depression, weight, and idenitity. In my childhood, my dad was very critical. Everything was about appearance to him. He constantly oogled women and made comments about their physical attributes to me, even when I was a little girl as young as 5 yo. So, I grew up thinking women were just objects for men's pleasure. I had very little sense of worth. My heart was 💔. I started battling depression in my teens and wanted to die many times. I developed a warped idea of food and eating, which of course led to an eating disorder. I let men use and abuse me. I had two abortions, one at 19, one at 20. I was a dark, broken, angry, bitter, mess, wrapped in a young woman's body and I plastered a smile on my face for public use so no-one knew the destruction inside. At 30, after going through a divorce from a narcissistic addict who cheated all the time, I was then a single mother of an 18 m/o. At that moment I reached my breaking point and realized I needed help. A friend, who truly cared, asked me why I didn't believe in God and Jesus Christ. I didn't have a good answer...it was simply that I felt I could only trust myself and I doubted there was a God when I looked at all the pain in the 🌎. Not long after our conversation, I heard the Gospel, which is the Good News that Jesus Christ came to earth 2000 years ago, fully God and fully man, to be the ultimate sacrifice for our sins, so that we could then be counted as God's children here on earth and then for eternity in Heaven. WHOA!! That blew me away....Jesus loves me (and you) so much that he allowed himself to be mocked, ridiculed, BEATEN, and HUNG BY SPIKES AND ROPE ON A ✝, then he was brought back to life by God the Father after three days, spoke to his many disciples and then ascended to Heaven in his glorified body!! AND, He did that as the ultimate sacrifice for our sins. All we need to do is believe he is alive, repent of our sins, and pursue him in prayer and in his WORD, the HOLY Bible. Abortion is a sin because its spilling the blood of the innocent lives God created. God wants to forgive us tho and that's why He sent Jesus. Since the moment I said yes to Jesus, he has given me SO much. He healed my ❤ from all the pain and regrets of my life. No more depression or questions about my value. I'm a new creation through Him, and because I chose Him, I'm worthy of God's goodness. He gave me a new life... a new job, a new husband who loves me for me, not what I look like or what I can do for him, a new home, the $ ability to send my child to private school. He blessed me with a 4th child (2 in Heaven, 2 on earth), the college diploma I had worked for but had not received, work promotions/bonuses, and now I'm blessed to be at home and care for my elderly mother and young child. The Lord gives me peace, love, kindness, joy, patience, comfort, strength, and goodness! The Lord is our great councilor if we'll let him. I've never regretted choosing Jesus. He's waiting for you TODAY! He wants to heal you, love you, and be with you for eternity! If you don't know him, I challenge you to just ask Him... Jesus, are you real, are you alive, did you create me, is the Bible your word, etc.??? If you're sincere in your questions, he'll answer you. I pray you don't doubt when He answers you! May God bless you!
  • @lovekhan5876
    Don't these women feel any love at all for there baby. There son or daughter. There child.
  • @lovekhan5876
    I could never kill my baby. I would never murder my baby.
  • My brain 🧠 child 👶 Right now CM of Tamil Nadu india 🇮🇳is giving free electricity connect orders for farmers here ( karur) this is because my writing on my walls in our city buildings. They watch all my writings on my wall and make use of it. But it is a my brain child ( one way but it is a very old SCHEME of present CM'S father ) Already they have given 100000 free connects . Today right now the orders are being given to 50,000 . My dad got a first connect many years ago I wrote my dad and my relatives name who are benefitted several years ago . Many thousands viewed it. I hope all I write is a cake for GOVERNMENT people here. God bless them . But I am a Christian. Governments must be helpful to Gospel works otherwise God almighty who gave or gives me all these kinds of ideas might not bless Tamil Nadu india 🙏🏼👍❤️ Thank you Lord Amen 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
  • @ivnehaas
    What happened to birthcontrol? Is that not an option anymore? Abortion is murder. No excuses.