Posted on 08/29/2019 6:13:50 PM PDT by Morgana
On Monday, Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke hosted a town hall at the College of Charleston, during which he reiterated his support for late-term abortion in response to an audience question. During his response, O’Rourke said that, because of abortion-clinic regulations in Texas, one-fourth of family planning facilities have shut down and claimed that these policies have made the state “one of the epicenters of this maternal mortality crisis.”
To make this claim, O’Rourke is relying on incorrect data.
A 2016 study in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology did report a large increase in the incidence of maternal mortality in Texas, but a 2018 study in the same journal — using corrected data — found that the maternal-mortality rate was actually less than half of what was previously reported. Contrary to O’Rourke’s remarks, neither clinic regulations nor funding cuts to Planned Parenthood caused the maternal-mortality rate in Texas to spike.
This is not the first time O’Rourke has blamed high maternal-mortality rates on pro-life policies.
At a campaign event in Nevada this April, O’Rourke claimed that Planned Parenthood “is saving lives” and again cited high maternal-mortality rates in Texas. Unlike the former congressman, some elected officials have shown some integrity and admitted error when they have cited false statistics. In May, for instance, Representative Don Beyer (D., Va.) claimed at a congressional hearing that rate of maternal deaths in Texas doubled after funding cuts to Planned Parenthood. Afterwards, he admitted the error and his communications director called it “an honest mistake.”
But O’Rourke, like many liberal activists, seems very invested in the false narrative that pro-life policies created a public-health crisis in Texas. While he’s entitled to his own opinion about different types of pro-life laws, he is not entitled to his own facts.
Since Texas defunded Planned Parenthood, the birth rate among minors (ages 13-17) in Texas fell by more than 49 percent and the abortion rate among minors fell by more than 57 percent. Presidential candidates should highlight these positive public-health trends in the Lone Star State instead of spreading the false narrative that cuts to Planned Parenthood caused a sharp increase in the rate of maternal mortality.
What an idiot. Pro abortion laws protect infanticide - the direct killing of innocent babies.
And this idiot wants to accuse pro-life laws causing death?
This guy is a Delusional Lying Leftist idiot.
Beatoff O’Dork should have been aborted.
Not long ago Planned Parenthood was offered full funding if they agreed to drop their “abortion services” and become true women’s health centers. They refused, which tells you all you need to know about them.
You cannot reason with a fool.
· 25.5% of women deciding to have an abortion want to postpone childbearing
· 21.3% of women cannot afford a baby
· 14.1% of women have a relationship issue or their partner does not want a child
· 12.2% of women are too young (their parents or others object to the pregnancy)
· 10.8% of women feel a child will disrupt their education or career
· 7.9% of women want no (more) children
· 3.3% of women have an abortion due to a risk to fetal health
2.8% of women have an abortion due to a risk to maternal health
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So how many women’s lives have been saved by abortion?
Less than 3% of abortions since 1972 were reported to be “due to a risk to maternal health.” A reasonable person would recognize that not all of those cases represent a lethal risk. But let’s say they did. That means that nearly 55 million fetuses were butchered to save the lives of about 1.6 million women. Or put another way; 34 babies are killed to save each woman.
Sorry but this vile Beto creature does not exist in a moral, social or cultural vacuum. Sadly there no longer exists a reasonable consensus of values in the United States. Simply put would never want anything to do with people like this horrible man or people who think like him. If they are capable of molding their conscience to kill or accept the killing of pre born innocent human life, then they are capable of any moral abomination and can never be trusted in any matter of importance.
Every Abortion results in a death, the death of a child
How does not funding PP result in an increase in moms dying? What services does PP provide, that are related to issues that generally have a risk of death? Abortion is about it.
Even if we ignore the death-related services, any other services they provide are easily handled by a myriad of other federally-qualified health centers that don’t kill babies.
The only unique thing PP provides is baby killing. So really, maternal mortality should go down with less PP funding, as lesser funding means fewer abortions, which means fewer abortion complications, which means fewer maternal fatalities.
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