{"id":36052,"date":"2013-06-07T13:30:57","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T17:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=36052"},"modified":"2013-08-16T13:46:06","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T17:46:06","slug":"can-countries-that-prohibit-abortion-provide-quality-maternal-healthcare-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/can-countries-that-prohibit-abortion-provide-quality-maternal-healthcare-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Can countries that prohibit abortion provide quality maternal health care? (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Would you expect a country that prohibits all abortion to have a higher or lower rate of maternal mortality? Can countries which prohibit abortion achieve a standard of maternal health care comparable with those that permit abortion?<\/p>\n<p>The answer revealed in a new video, which sets out to answer these questions from a scientific and medical perspective, may surprise you:<br \/>\n[youtube http:\/\/youtu.be\/8WeuP0Eg5aw&amp;w=560&amp;h=315]<\/p>\n<p>Medical experts in maternal health care <a href=\"\/news\/pro-life-groups-to-un-abortion-is-always-violence-against-women\/\">testified<\/a> before the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women in March that direct abortion is <em>not<\/em> necessary to save the life of the mother in any circumstance. Several of the speakers were panelists at the International Symposium on Maternal Healthcare, which <a href=\"\/news\/dublin-declaration-abortion-is-not-medically-necessary\/\">released<\/a> the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dublindeclaration.com\/\">Dublin Declaration<\/a> last fall.<\/p>\n<p>The findings from Ireland and Chile indicate that prohibiting abortion is consistent with providing high-quality medical care to pregnant mothers. Ireland consistently boasts one of the lowest maternal mortality rates in the world according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unicef.org\/infobycountry\/ireland_statistics.html\">U.N., UNICEF, and WHO<\/a> (#1 in 2005, #3 in 2008). The 1989 ban on abortion in Chile was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plosone.org\/article\/info:doi\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0036613\">correlated<\/a> with a near-complete reduction in maternal mortality. In 2008, Chile had the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chileno.co.uk\/science\/maternal-death-rate-in-chile-lower-than-us#.Ua_8BOPZ_NU\">second-lowest<\/a> maternal mortality rate in the Americas, just behind Canada and ahead of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, widespread access to abortion may actually <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercatornet.com\/articles\/view\/how_many_mothers_die_from_unsafe_abortion\">increase<\/a> abortion-related mortality! Developed nations with easy access to abortion typically have a higher rate of maternal deaths caused by abortion, despite their generally higher-quality health care systems. According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.who.int\/reproductivehealth\/topics\/maternal_perinatal\/epidemiology\/en\/\">WHO<\/a>, abortion-related mortality is responsible for 8.2% of maternal deaths in developed countries, while in Africa (where abortion is restricted and where 56% of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unfpa.org\/webdav\/site\/global\/shared\/documents\/publications\/2012\/Trends_in_maternal_mortality_A4-1.pdf\">all<\/a> maternal deaths occur worldwide), abortion is related to less than 4% of maternal deaths.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the claims of abortion advocates, the weight of scientific evidence over decades of research demonstrates that abortion is not a <a href=\"http:\/\/personhoodeducation.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/full-brochure.pdf\">rational answer<\/a> to maternal mortality. In reality, education and access to higher-quality health care (especially better access to prenatal and perinatal care) decrease maternal mortality most effectively, not access to abortion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would you expect a country that prohibits all abortion to have a higher or lower rate of maternal mortality?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":36053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[19,1780,1643,1642,1781,1396,1783,1448,1107,431,1604,200,1784,1791,1424,573,220,1785,34,1052,1394,738,450,1782],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Can countries that prohibit abortion provide quality maternal health care? 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