{"id":277122,"date":"2022-10-03T18:37:40","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T23:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=277122"},"modified":"2022-10-02T22:12:45","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T03:12:45","slug":"maternal-health-expert-abortion-mortality-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/maternal-health-expert-abortion-mortality-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Maternal health expert addresses abortion and maternal mortality in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A recent <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5idXp6c3Byb3V0LmNvbS8xODM5MDk1LnJzcw\/episode\/QnV6enNwcm91dC0xMTE5ODYzMA?sa=X&amp;ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwjYqOjt-rr6AhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">episode <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of the EDIFY podcast explored the connection between abortion and America\u2019s maternal mortality crisis, a timely topic, as\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/floridaphoenix.com\/2022\/09\/29\/abortion-absolutely-is-healthcare-u-s-house-panel-told-as-gop-pursues-nationwide-ban\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">pro-abortion politicians and abortion activists<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> claim\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that the overturning of <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> will further worsen the maternal mortality rate. The guest expert was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aimsplatform.io\/people\/dr-monique-chireau-wubbenhorst-md-mph-facog-faha\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. Monique Wubbenhorst,<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> who has over two decades of experience as both a practicing OB\/GYN and a clinical researcher and who previously held the position of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Deputy Assistant Administrator in the Bureau for Global Health at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Dr. Wubbenhorst separated fact from fiction and regarding <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/hestat\/maternal-mortality\/2020\/maternal-mortality-rates-2020.htm\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">maternal mortality<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which rose an alarming 26% between 2003 and 2014, and provided important context for discussions about abortion as a possible solution (<em>spoiler: it isn\u2019t<\/em>) to maternal mortality.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. Wubbenhorst explained, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI\u2019ve been studying maternal mortality for quite some time. It\u2019s a complicated topic. It\u2019s true that the United States has \u2014 not the highest maternal mortality rate in the world \u2014 but the highest rate in the developed world. There are a lot of reasons for that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Is maternal mortality preventable?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She noted, \u201cWhen you break down the maternal mortality rate to a granular level, some interesting facts emerge\u2026 There\u2019s an estimate based on reviews of actual maternal mortality data that about 60% of maternal mortality is preventable. About 40% does not appear to be preventable, and there\u2019s a lot of reasons for that.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>The most common cause of maternal mortality is\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She went on, \u201cPart of it is that maternal mortality often appears in healthy young women with no warning, and common causes include preeclampsia, severe hypertension [high blood pressure] of pregnancy, or pulmonary embolus [blood clot in a lung]. But, the most common cause of maternal mortality in the United States is cardiovascular [heart] disease. African-American women are at higher risk for cardiovascular complications and death during pregnancy, but also have a higher baseline risk for cardiovascular disease just out of the gate.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While researchers haven\u2019t pinpointed exactly why this is, Dr. Wubbenhorst said, \u201cwe do know that cardiovascular risk is strongly associated with specific behavioral and dietary risk factors, and one of the unfortunate facts in the Black community in particular is that 80% of African-American women are either obese or overweight. And given that foundation, you have higher risk for diabetes, higher risk for dyslipidemia [high cholesterol], and higher risk for heart disease.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She clarified, \u201cDifferent studies have focused on whether Black women are at higher risk pre-pregnancy, and it looks like that\u2019s the case \u2014 that, going into pregnancy, many Black women have undiagnosed cardiovascular disease that is unmasked during pregnancy and leads to their having higher rates of mortality.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Are poverty and care discrepancies to blame for African-American women\u2019s higher maternal mortality rate?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. Wubbenhorst shared why she believes two commonly cited reasons for <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/los-angeles-reduce-infant-maternal-mortality-doula\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">higher maternal mortality rates among African-American women <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">are inadequate. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe reason that I don\u2019t think that the high rates of mortality are due to two other things, which are differences in care and differences in poverty rates, is that I was involved in a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0002937807005571\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">study<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> several years ago that looked at mortality rates in the South among Black, white, and Hispanic women.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Surprisingly, she said, \u201cI actually found that even though Hispanic women tend to be very disadvantaged financially, they have better pregnancy outcomes than Black women and, for some outcomes, even in white women. So it\u2019s not just poverty, there\u2019s something else going on. The other interesting fact that I want to emphasize here is that in the United Kingdom \u2014\u00a0where there\u2019s socialized medicine, people have good access to care \u2014\u00a0women of color still have double or even higher the risk of mortality compared with white women, in a health system which pretty much covers 100% of the population. So, I think it\u2019s complicated.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Is abortion the answer to the maternal mortality crisis?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Given all the above, Dr. Wubbenhorst offered two reasons that abortion is not the answer to America\u2019s maternal mortality crisis, including the disproportionately high rate of maternal mortality rate among African-Americans. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cNumber one, abortion does not address risk factors. If you want to control a public health outcome or control a specific public health outcome, you focus on the risk factors. Abortion does not address any of those risk factors.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ:\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/bad-science-question-study-abortion-safer-childbirth\/\">\u2018Bad science\u2019: Why you should question the lone study claiming abortion is 14x safer than childbirth<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Perhaps most importantly, \u201cNumber two, we cannot estimate in any given patient what her risk for mortality is. We can say, \u2018based on population-level data,\u2019 [but] we can\u2019t say \u2018Sally, you\u2019re going to die\u2019\u2026 If you say, \u2018well, if we do an abortion, that\u2019s going to prevent maternal mortality,\u2019 you don\u2019t know whether that woman was going to die or not. And then the solution then becomes, what percentage of pregnancies do we abort? Do you abort 50% of pregnancies and therefore prevent some mortality? You don\u2019t know. Do you abort 100% of pregnancies?\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>But isn\u2019t abortion safer than pregnancy?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. Wubbenhorst also touched on why calling abortion safer than pregnancy is making an apples-to-oranges comparison.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cPregnancy physiology is very different early in pregnancy. The fetus at eight weeks is an entirely different size, the uterus is a different size. So, if you\u2019re really going to compare mortality rates, you would have to compare mortality rates in each trimester. And we already know that late abortions are much more dangerous and in fact there is some evidence that late abortions, especially as they get closer and closer to term, begin to approximate [mortality] related to childbirth.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She also observed that the vast majority of abortions occur in the first trimester, when mortality risk is lowest, but abortion mortality for all gestational ages is lumped together in aggregate, essentially \u201cdiluting\u201d the true danger of abortions conducted later on in pregnancy. Additionally, as<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/32699440\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">these researchers noted<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, abortion predisposes mothers to increased risks in future pregnancies, including preterm birth and problems with the placenta. There are many reasons to <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/bad-science-question-study-abortion-safer-childbirth\/\">question the claim<\/a> that abortion is safer than childbirth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since there is no universal mandatory reporting system for abortion complications across the United States <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> because abortion-related complications \u2014\u00a0even those leading to death \u2014\u00a0are often treated in emergency rooms and may not be medically coded as abortion-related at all, we don\u2019t really know the true safety profile of abortions. Hence, a meaningful, comprehensive comparison between abortion mortality and pregnancy mortality is simply not possible with current statistics. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As Dr. Wubbenhorst concluded, abortion is no solution to the problem of maternal mortality, and continuing to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.everydayhealth.com\/abortion\/scenarios-where-abortion-can-be-life-saving\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">insist that it is<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> does nothing to help women actually at risk.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveactionnewsonline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a> for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent episode of the EDIFY podcast explored the connection between abortion and America\u2019s maternal mortality crisis, a timely topic, as\u00a0pro-abortion politicians and abortion activists claim\u00a0that the overturning of Roe v. 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