{"id":39469,"date":"2013-08-15T22:28:15","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T02:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=39469"},"modified":"2016-09-08T16:15:12","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T20:15:12","slug":"shocking-study-abortion-is-not-safer-for-women-than-childbirth-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/shocking-study-abortion-is-not-safer-for-women-than-childbirth-after-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Shocking study: abortion is not safer for women than childbirth after all"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"shocked_baby_27160\"<\/a>How often do you hear a child disposal apologist repeat the talking point that abortion is safer for the mother than childbirth?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s never been quite the showstopper they hoped for, since annual pregnancy-related deaths in the United States (650<\/a>) are less than a thousandth of 1% of the annual number of live births (3,953,590<\/a>), because it seems like a new abortion mill is being busted for health violations almost every week, and ultimately because it wouldn\u2019t change the fact that abortion\u2019s mortality rate for the baby<\/em> is virtually 100%.<\/p>\n

Now, I know this may come as a shock to you, as pro-aborts are typically paragons of honesty and integrity, but it turns out that that fact might not be so factual after all.<\/p>\n

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Via Personhood Education comes word<\/a> of a new study by Dr. Byron Calhoun, vice chair of West Virginia University-Charleston\u2019s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and published<\/a> in the peer-reviewed Catholic medical journal Linacre Quarterly<\/em>, has reviewed US data on abortion-related deaths and declared the talking point essentially groundless. Here\u2019s the study\u2019s full abstract:<\/p>\n

It was quoted recently in the literature that \u201cThe risk of death associated with childbirth is approximately 14 times higher than with abortion.\u201d This statement is unsupported by the literature and there is no credible scientific basis to support it. A reasonable woman would find any discussion about the risk of dying from a procedure as material, i.e., important and significant. In order for the physician\u2010patient informed consent dialogue to address this critical issue, the physician must rely upon objective and accurate information concerning abortion. There are numerous and complicated methodological factors that make a valid scientific assessment of abortion mortality extremely difficult. Among the many factors responsible are incomplete reporting, definitional incompatibilities, voluntary data collection, research bias, reliance upon estimations, political correctness, inaccurate and\/or incomplete death certificate completion, incomparability with maternal mortality statistics, and failing to include other causes of death such as suicides. Given the importance of this disclosure about abortion mortality, the lack of credible and reliable scientific evidence supporting this representation requires substantial discussion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Personhood Education relays some of the report\u2019s more specific findings:<\/p>\n

1. Abortion is underreported by a factor of up to 50% when complications arise, making data unreliable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

2. Abortion-related mortality is demonstrably underestimated. Additionally, \u201cindirect abortion-associated deaths,\u201d such as \u201csubstance abuse, depression, anxiety, and suicide\u201d arising from abortion,\u00a0\u201dare likely to be many times higher than those deaths directly caused by obstetric complications.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

3. Serious health complications\u00a0arising from abortion\u00a0which threaten the life of the woman are usually handled by hospital emergency rooms, not the abortion provider. Despite being the result of physical complications of the abortion procedure, these abortion-related deaths are reported as maternal deaths.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Abortion-related mortality is vastly underreported \u201cdue to poor quality reporting and definitional issues\u201d. \u00a0Dr. Calhoun\u2019s research shows that \u00a0\u201dmaternal deaths,\u201d \u201clate maternal deaths,\u201d \u201cpregnancy-related deaths,\u201d and \u201cpregnancy-associated deaths\u201d are being defined to include, but not identify, \u201cabortion-related deaths.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Gee, who would have guessed that aborting a biological process by violently ending the life of the person it creates wouldn\u2019t be safer than letting it naturally run its course? And how were we supposed to anticipate that abortionists\u2019 complication reporting might be anything less than sterling?<\/p>\n

Given the sputtering rage pro-aborts level at pro-lifers for our alleged willful ignorance of science and evidence, I\u2019m sure all of our pals at Slate<\/em>, Salon<\/em>, RH Reality Check, NARAL, Jezebel, Vanity Fair<\/em>, ThinkProgress, etc. will all acknowledge Dr. Calhoun\u2019s findings and amend their future arguments accordingly, right? Right?<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll pause for a minute for you to wipe up the beverages most of you just spit at your keyboards.<\/p>\n

The truth is, their self-serving odes to evidence have always been a lie. The defense of abortion is built on lying about virtually every factual question the issue contains\u2014what the embryo biologically is<\/a>, whether there\u2019s evidence for fetal pain<\/a>, what happened to women<\/a> without legal abortion, what the Constitution says about abortion<\/a>, how crisis pregnancy centers treat women<\/a>, how the percentages of Planned Parenthood services actually break down<\/a>, whether \u201crespectable\u201d pro-abortion institutions enable the criminal ones<\/a>, whether abortion carries risks to physical<\/a> and mental<\/a> health, whether abortion restrictions are effective<\/a>, and more.<\/p>\n

So while abortion may not be safer than childbirth, to be fair, there is more evidence for that claim than for the claim that abortion defenders have scruples.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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It\u2019s never been quite the showstopper they hoped for, since annual pregnancy-related deaths in the United States (650) are less than a thousandth of 1% of the annual number of live births (3,953,590), […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nShocking study: abortion is not safer for women than childbirth after all - Live Action News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/shocking-study-abortion-is-not-safer-for-women-than-childbirth-after-all\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Shocking study: abortion is not safer for women than childbirth after all - Live Action News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"How often do you hear a child disposal apologist repeat the talking point that abortion is safer for the mother than childbirth? 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