{"id":199674,"date":"2019-04-06T12:38:58","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T17:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=199674"},"modified":"2019-04-04T23:38:51","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T04:38:51","slug":"hillary-clinton-women-die-without-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/hillary-clinton-women-die-without-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillary Clinton trots out the ‘women will die without abortion’ lie"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As Georgia<\/a> and other states prepare to pass heartbeat bills, banning abortion<\/a> after a preborn child’s heartbeat can be detected, abortion advocates are doing all they can to fight back. Ilyse Hogue, president of NARAL, wrote an op-ed claiming that these heartbeat bills will “hurt” women; that link was shared by former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, who took it one step further, arguing that women will die<\/em> without access to abortion.<\/p>\n

Tweeting Hogue’s op-ed, Clinton wrote<\/a>, “When anti-choice politicians limit access to reproductive care, women die. Please read @ilyseh on why we must continue to fight the new wave of six-week abortion bans that make women collateral damage for extremist views.” In another tweet, NARAL likewise slammed heartbeat bills<\/a>, calling them “dangerous,” “inhumane,” and “extremist.” Hogue also tried to claim that problems like decreasing maternal mortality should be Georgia’s focus instead — and of course, Clinton’s remarks about women’s deaths seems to tie into this.<\/p>\n

The question is, are these claims true? Is a lack of abortion access really damaging to women?<\/p>\n

It has been a common argument from abortion activists that a lack of legal abortion access increases maternal mortality rates. If this were true, however, pro-life countries like Poland, Malta, and Chile would have sky-high maternal mortality rates. However, as previously documented<\/a> at Live Action News, their maternal mortality rates are lower<\/em> than those in the United States, despite more restrictive abortion rates. In Chile, the rates fell even further after pro-life laws were put into place. In Mexico, states with more permissive abortion laws have higher<\/em> mortality rates than states with pro-life laws.<\/p>\n