Earlier this week a new study was released on abortion safety. The Reuters Health headline reads: "Abortion safer than giving birth."
According to the study, one woman dies in childbirth for every 11,000
births in the United States, while one woman dies from abortion for
every 167,000 abortions. These numbers led the researchers to declare
that a woman is 14 times more likely to die giving birth than she is to
die during an abortion.
There are a number of ways to respond to a story like this. The first is
to remind people that even if abortion is safer for the mother, it is
certainly not safer for the child. Maternal, abortion-related deaths may
be a rarity, but fetal, abortion-related deaths are not. We could just
as easily say that for every 167,000 abortions in the United States,
there are 167,001 abortion-related deaths. The headline of the
MedicineNet article was a much more honest one: "Abortion Safer for Women Than Childbirth, Study Claims."
The second thing to note is the sources of the datasets used in this
study. While accurate birth data is available from the federal
government, accurate abortion data is not.
As such, abortion data must be obtained from the Guttmacher Institute, a
research group founded by Planned Parenthood and named after their
former president, Alan Guttmacher. The Guttmacher Institute openly
advocates abortion and seeks to normalize its use around the world.
Speaking to this issue,
Dr. Donna Harrison, director of research and public policy at the
American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, says,
"Abortion mortality is not systematically collected. What Dr. Grimes'
paper most clearly illustrates is the immediate need for reporting
requirements for abortion deaths in all 50 states." Continue at Abort73
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