“America has the highest maternal death rate for any industrialized nation and those nations like Chile, which ban abortion, have the lowest maternal mortality in the Americas.”
Chile has a higher MMR than the US does ...
Here's an interesting list of maternal mortality per 100,000 women (from the CIA Wold Factbook), in 2012.
| Country | Maternal Mortality Rate |
|---|---|
| Russia* | 34 |
| Malaysia | 29 |
| Uruguay | 29 |
| Uzbekistan | 28 |
| Albania | 27 |
| Fiji | 26 |
| Chile** | 25 |
| United States*** | 21 |
| Hungary | 21 |
| Iran | 21 |
| Luxembourg | 20 |
| Iran | 20 |
| Canada | 12 |
| United Kingdom | 12 |
| France | 8 |
| Ireland*** | 8 |
*Russia has one of the highest abortion rates in the world and one of the highest Maternal Mortality rates in Europe
**Chile has the lowest abortion rate in the world AND the lowest Maternal Mortality rate in Latin America
***USA has more unrestricted abortion than any country except China and North Korea, and has a high MMR for a top-ranked developed country
****Ireland has the one of the lowest abortion rates in the world AND the one of the lowest Maternal Mortality rates in the world.