{"id":253053,"date":"2021-09-13T08:39:32","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T13:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=253053"},"modified":"2024-09-20T12:18:33","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T17:18:33","slug":"abortion-restrictions-unsafe-abortions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-restrictions-unsafe-abortions\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Do abortion restrictions cause unsafe abortions?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A recent article<\/a> in Foreign Policy claimed pro-life laws, like the Texas Heartbeat Act<\/a> (SB8), do not reduce the number of abortions. This is a frequent assertion made by abortion activists, who suggest that pro-life restrictions will lead many mothers to undergo abortions by any means possible, even illegally. These claims are false, and there is data<\/a> to demonstrate this.<\/p>\n

The Foreign Policy article states that pro-life laws could have \u201ccatastrophic results,” claiming,\u00a0\u201cIn countries around the world with limited or no access to safe, affordable abortion, people are either forced to keep unwanted pregnancies or dismembered [sic<\/em>] or even killed by unsafe abortions each day.\u201d<\/p>\n

The premise that some abortions are \u201csafe\u201d and others are \u201cunsafe\u201d ignores the fact that in every successful abortion, at least one human life is ended. Safe abortion is a myth, because it is inherently violent and destructive.<\/p>\n

Abortion and mortality<\/strong><\/p>\n

The abortion industry has preyed on vulnerable women<\/a>, returned victims to their abusers<\/a>, and injured and killed mothers<\/a> in addition to killing their preborn children. We do not need to imagine cruel and inhumane treatment of women and children when the legal<\/em> abortion industry commits so many atrocities.<\/p>\n

The Foreign Policy article makes a calculated choice to compare abortion restrictions in Texas to those in Kenya and Uganda. At a few points, the author notes that the \u201ccontexts are vastly different\u201d between the nations, but nonetheless, still tries to claim that the maternal mortality rate of Kenya and Uganda will necessarily apply to Texas due to pro-life laws.<\/p>\n

However, Kenya and Uganda are not the only nations that have or have had strong pro-life policies in place. Ireland, for example, had a constitutional amendment<\/a> protecting the right to life of the preborn child until 2019. Ireland did not subjugate the mother\u2019s health to that of her baby, but had a strong record of jurisprudence that recognized the equal rights of both mother and child. In contrast to Kenya and Uganda, pro-life Ireland had one of the lowest maternal mortality rates in the world<\/a>.<\/p>\n

READ: FACT: The Texas Heartbeat Act bars rapists from suing survivors<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n