As more households face growing utility bills they cannot afford, there may be additional tragedies when households lacking utility service resort to unsafe alternatives to meet their needs for light and heat.
It would isolate desperate young women from the trusted adults in their lives and increase the chance they will resort to unsafe alternatives for termination of their pregnancies or delay the procedure, making it more dangerous.
Responsible practitioners also know that microfinance means more than microcredit, and that offering loans and other services like deposit accounts, bill paying and insurance on fair terms promotes economic development and avoids overpriced, inefficient and unsafe alternatives.
We cannot allow servicewomen who are the victims of rape to seek unsafe alternatives because their health care plan does not cover abortion.
According to the ACLU complaint, the revised bypass procedure will endanger pregnant teenagers in several ways: the utter lack of confidentiality will leave some vulnerable to abuse and abandonment, while others, too intimidated to submit to cross-examination, will simply resort to illegal and unsafe alternatives to end their unwanted pregnancies.
Opponents of the bill argue that it fails to consider the extenuating circumstances in which a teen would turn to another adult -- such her grandmother or adult sister -- for support, and could force young women to instead turn to unsafe alternatives to terminating her pregnancy.
If a tube well becomes unsafe, then an alternative drinking water supply must be identified or the unsafe water must be treated.
It also fails to engage with the dangerous effects of banning abortion: that women face arrest, injury, and death when they're forced to resort to unsafe and illegal alternatives.
(Data shows that blocking women's access to safe and legal abortion doesn't decrease the frequency of the procedure, but it does make it more likely that women will resort to unsafe and illegal alternatives).
Also due to lack of appropriate family life education young sexually active women are not only vulnerable to consider late, unsafe abortions as an alternative to carrying a pregnancy to term but also are subject to greater risks of infection with sexually transmitted diseases (including HIV/AIDS) compared to their older counter parts [ 4].
