UN Health Data Show Liberal Abortion Laws Lead to Greater Maternal Death

Catholic Famly and Human Rights Institute ^ | August 13, 2009 | Aracely Ornelas

[CMoran325]

The world's largest abortion provider, International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), has recently acknowledged an alarming "surge" in maternal deaths in South Africa, challenging the pro-abortion mantra that liberal abortion laws decrease maternal mortality. Maternal deaths increased by twenty per cent in the period 2005-2007 in South Africa, a country that since 1996 has had one of the most permissive abortion laws on the African continent.

While deaths attributable to HIV/AIDS account for the biggest portion of maternal deaths in South Africa, IPPF acknowledges that a portion of deaths are "due to complications of abortion" in a country where the procedure is legal and widely available.

Developing countries have been badgered in recent years by various United Nations agencies and pro-abortion civil society organizations, including IPPF, to decriminalize abortion as a measure to reduce maternal mortality rates. However, the latest IPPF revelation is the latest fact in a growing body of evidence showing the opposite relationship in which legal abortion and high maternal deaths coincide.

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[CMoran325]

Gee -- I think the answer is -- MORE ABORTIONS, don't you?

When a country cares about *both* mother and child (and values motherhood not eschews it) they are *both* taken better care of. What a surprise!

[ArchAngel1983]

Oh my God, this is terrible! How’s it going to affect the financial bottom line of International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF). After all, if a significant number of clients are killed by abortion, they can no longer get pregnant and if they can’t get pregnant then they can’t get additional abortions. Oh the humanity!! Maybe Obama will front them a couple of billion (just to get by – you know walking around $ like ACORN has).