Posted on 02/21/2006 11:02:09 AM PST by lizol
Outlawing Abortion Doesn't Increase Maternal Mortality UN Data Shows
by Hilary White
NEW YORK, February 20, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – One of the most commonly played assertions of the abortion movement has been that laws prohibiting abortion result in maternal deaths from “unsafe back-alley abortions.” Now data from the United Nations has shown that countries with laws protecting the life of the unborn also enjoy lower rates of maternal morality than countries where abortion is legal.
The comparison of four countries in the developed world published by the United Nations Populations Division, shows that Russia, with one of the highest rates of abortion in the world, has a maternal mortality rate of 67 deaths for every 100,000 births. The United States, with almost no legal restrictions on abortion but better health care, has a rate of 17 deaths for every 100,000 births.
Ireland, however, where abortion is illegal and with health care comparable to the US, has the lowest rate of the four countries with only 5 deaths for every 100,000 births. In Poland, long under communist rule, the rate is 13 deaths for every 100,000 births.
The study is timely for pro-life countries like Poland and Ireland, as well as those in Latin America struggling under heavy pressure from the UN and European Union to legalise abortion. "The World Mortality Report: 2005" lists infant and maternal mortality rates around the world and “is the first report of its kind” from the UN Population Division.
Bump. This thread is in News/Activism.
This one, yes... the one in the post I responded to isn't. I've watched, with a few other freepers, several of the pro-life threads get removed from the sidebar and into chat at times.
It's hard to know what's happening.
Truth. Abortion hurts and kills more than just the baby.
That testimony is horrifying in its implications.
I think presidio9 has a few keywords cataloging it.
Anyone who thinks FR is a conservative forum is deceiving himself. It is a private business enterprise, run for a profit by libertarians and moderated by libertarians.
Yes, that could shed some light on this.
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