[CharlesOConnell]

Abortion Far Deadlier Than Childbirth

afterabortion.org/2000/abortion-four-times-deadlier-than-childbirth/

Mothers who choose abortion are much more prone to suffering death from various causes (suicide, accident, homicide, death due to medical causes) than Mothers who give birth, Mothers who suffer miscarriage, or Women who have not had a pregnancy.

There is a heightened death rate after abortion for all causes together: Compared to women who carry to term, women who abort are 3.5 times more likely to die within a year.

Maternal Mortality in Finland – Women of reproductive age (15-49) who died between 1987 and 1994 – 9,192 women studied. Source: STAKES, the statistical analysis unit of Finland’s National Research and Development Center for Welfare and Health. “No Pregnancy” (second row) set as baseline-1.0, against which are measured rates for Birth, Miscarriage and Abortion.

The Finnish post-abortion death statistics are considered particularly reliable because there is little opposition to abortion in Finland: it is a “settled issue”, there is little domestic controversy, Finland is one of the most prosperous countries in the world. “The quality of service in Finnish health care is considered to be good; according to a survey published by the European Commission in 2000, Finland has the highest number of people satisfied with their hospital care system in the EU: 88% of Finnish respondents were satisfied compared with the EU average of 41.3%.”

[Texas Eagle]

Gah! You could’ve warned a brother you were going to post a pic of that hideous creature.

[Texas Eagle]

Activist Admits She Doesn’t Want Abortions to be Rare: “We Want as Many Abortions as Needed”

Not gonna say it. Wouldn't be Christian.

[uncommonsense]

Disgusting person! I know my only salvation is Jesus, but maybe Dante was onto something with the 7 rings of Hell...

[dead]

Somebody aborted her orthodontist.

[Salvation]

**“We Want as Many Abortions as Needed”**

Not what God wants.

Let God's will be done!

Allow all babies in the womb to live!

[Salvation]

**Compared to women who carry to term, women who abort are 3.5 times more likely to die within a year.**

Those aren’t very good odds.

[Objective Scrutator]

Any society which does not make the murder of the unborn a capital crime is an unjust society. Anyone who argues against Christian paternalism is de-facto supporting abortion.

http://www.reformed.org/social/index.html?mainframe=http://www.reformed.org/social/let_2_paul_hill.html

[TBP]

She wants to improve the race, don’t you know?

[TBP]

Why is it always the ugly chicks?

[Optimist]

Love it when the trite expression “rare” is used.

They think it shows them as having a reasonable, fair-minded, middle-of-the-fence, self-control, and not-nearly-as unreasonable-as-those-REAL-abortion-lovers perspective.

I usually destroy their self-important, unthinking position with 2 simple words: “why rare?”

[SkyDancer]

She wasn’t aborted but wants other kids to be aborted. A bit hypocritical if you ask me ...

[CharlesOConnell]

The Coathanger Buzzword

"Prior to Roe, pro-choicers were fond of saying that nearly a million women every year obtained illegal abortions performed with rusty coat hangers in back-alleys that resulted in thousands of fatalities. Given the gravity of the issue at hand, it would go beyond the duty of kindness to call such claims an exaggeration, because several well-attested facts establish that the pro-choice movement was simply lying."

The "coat hanger" argument is one of the most emotionally compelling appeals of abortion activists. It is also misleading and would seem to have little substance.

• Some women have chosen dangerous methods to rid themselves of their children in the past and some died as a result.
• People often choose a course of action that has disastrous consequences.
• Many of the women aborting today would never have chosen an illegal abortion.
• Most 'legal' abortion related deaths are misreported and misrecorded.
• Women are 600% more likely to commit suicide after having an abortion.

- The Life Information Website, New Zealand, "The Coat Hanger Argument"

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Do you want to return to the days of back alley abortion?

The idea of widespread and dangerous "back alley" abortions prior to the nationwide legalization of abortion in 1973 is not supported by the facts. The medical director of Planned Parenthood wrote in 1960:

Ninety percent of illegal abortions are being done by physicians. Call them what you will, abortionists or anything else, they are still physicians, trained as such;... They must do a pretty good job if the death rate is as low as it is...Abortion, whether therapeutic or illegal, is in the main no longer dangerous because it is being done well by physicians [1].

It is impossible to know exactly how many illegal abortions were performed prior to 1973 for the simple reason that they were not reported. However, records were kept for the number of women who died from illegal abortions. When a woman was seriously injured during an abortion, she went to another doctor for care. If she died, the physician would not deliberately falsify her death certificate—an act punishable as a felony—to protect the abortionist. Thus, it stands to reason that prior to the nationwide legalization of abortion, deaths from illegal abortions were reported accurately.

The graph at right [2] was used on the floor of the U. S. Senate during hearings on abortion in 1981. Compiled from statistics from the National Center for Health Statistics, it was not challenged by abortion supporters.

As you can see, after Penicillin became available to control infections, the number of deaths from abortion stabilized in the 1950s to about 250 per year. By 1966, when abortion was still illegal in all 50 states, the number of deaths had gradually dropped to half that number. And, in 1972, the year before the Supreme Court legalized abortion, only 39 women died—fewer than one per state.

The bottom line is that prior to the legalization of abortion, either there were not many illegal abortions, or illegal abortions were relatively safe.

Notes

• 1. M. Calderone, "Illegal abortion as a public health problem," American Journal of Public Health, July 1960, 50 (7): 949
• 2. Chart compiled with data from the National Center for Health Statistics

- Source: http://prolifeaction.org/faq/dare.php

 

[Unam Sanctam]

Of course the Democrat Party support this point of view since it removed the “safe, legal and rare” formulation from the party platform.

[Dutch Boy]

What is this “woman’s healthcare need” that I keep hearing about? It seems to me that abortion causes more healthcare concerns not few of them them.

Abortion is one of the evil things this planet has ever devised. With no regards for the most innocent of life, a baby is killed for the wants of the person that is supposed to be the protector of life. Instead bringing the sorrow and remorse it should, it is celebrated by it’s advocates. IMHO, these abortion advocates are the most vile of demons. No one but a sole-less creature could believe that killing the most innocent beings on the planet is a good thing.

[ExCTCitizen]

I would put a bag over its head if I wanted to have sex with it. She looked like a cross between Nancy Pelosi, Helen Thomas and Liz Warren. :-)

[Fresh Wind]

Why is it that the biggest supporters of abortion are the women who have the hardest time convincing men to impregnate them?

[newnhdad]

the only person that wanted it “rare” was the speech writer for Bill Clinton.. the rest want infanticide, including his wife.

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[JimRed]

She’s dead set against Hillary, too. After all, Hillary couldn’t even convince her own daughter to abort!