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UN Data Show Banning Abortion Doesn't Increase Maternal Mortality
Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute ^
| 02.17.06
| Bradford Short
Posted on 02/19/2006 7:43:35 PM PST by Coleus
Dear Colleague,
One of the old chestnuts of the pro-abortion movement has turned rotten. They say laws against abortion result in higher maternal mortality. New statistics direct from the UN indicate they couldn't be more wrong. In fact, it seems pro-life nations actually have lower maternal mortality rates. This information must be used immediately by everyone concerned about this issue but particularly by those in countries where abortion is against the law: Ireland and Poland especially.
Spread the word far and wide.
Yours sincerely,
Austin Ruse
President
Action Item: Read the report here.
UN Data Show Banning Abortion
Doesn't Increase Maternal Mortality
By Bradford Short
Nations with permissive abortion laws do not experience lower rates of maternal mortality compared to nations with restrictive abortion laws according to new data published by the United Nations Populations Division.
Pro-abortion radicals have long argued that the right to abortion should be guaranteed by international law because restricting abortion leads to high maternal mortality. But an examination and comparison of four countries of the developed world tells a far different story. The data are found in "The World Mortality Report: 2005" which was published by the UN Population Division at the start of this year. Completed over the course of 2005, it "is the first report of its kind produced by the" UN Population Division. It measures mortality, including maternal and infant mortality, for all the world's countries.
According to the report, Russia, where abortion is legal, has a maternal mortality rate of 67 deaths for every 100,000 births. The United States, where there are almost no restrictions on abortion, has a rate of 17 deaths for every 100,000 births.
Both Ireland and Poland, favorite targets of the pro-abortion radicals for their strong restrictions on abortion, have better maternal mortality rates than Russia and the US. Ireland has the lowest rate of the four countries with only 5 deaths for every 100,000 births. In Poland, which like Russia was recently freed from communism, the maternal mortality rate is 13 deaths for every 100,000 births.
Liberal abortion laws do not seem to decrease infant mortality either even if one does not consider abortion to be an instance of infant mortality. Ireland also has the lowest rate in this category with 6 deaths for every 1,000 live births. Both Poland and the US have an infant mortality rate of 7 deaths for every 1,000 live babies born. Russia has a much higher infant mortality rate, of 12 deaths for every 1,000 live births.
Because the state of record keeping and the regularity of government censuses is not uniformly advanced throughout the world, the report warns that "it is important [for readers] to be cautious about the comparability of the mortality estimates presented [therein]… for different countries." All the above figures quoted from the report are from tabulations recorded from the beginning of 2000 to the end of 2004. In all cases, the report uses the most current data that the UN Population Division was able to obtain at the time.Copyright 2005 - C-FAM (Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute).
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posted on
02/19/2006 7:43:37 PM PST
by
Coleus
To: 2ndMostConservativeBrdMember; afraidfortherepublic; Alas; al_c; american colleen; annalex; ...
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posted on
02/19/2006 7:43:52 PM PST
by
Coleus
(IMHO, The IVF procedure is immoral & kills many embryos/children and should be outlawed)
To: Coleus
To: Coleus
Do we really want to be quoting the Useless Nimrods on something like this?
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posted on
02/19/2006 7:47:49 PM PST
by
trubluolyguy
(Islam, Religion of Peace and they'll kill you to prove it.)
To: trubluolyguy
When the left shoots the left, it is always good theater. Why not stir the pot?
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posted on
02/19/2006 7:59:46 PM PST
by
WorkingClassFilth
(Di'ver'si'ty (adj.): A compound word derived from the root words: division; perversion; adversity.)
To: Coleus
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posted on
02/19/2006 8:06:36 PM PST
by
ATOMIC_PUNK
(The Death Penalty isn't for making examples it's for making bad people DEAD!)
To: trubluolyguy
in this case i would say YES since the "health of the mother" argument is frequently used in many abortion arguments on both sides and in legislation. when a pro-abortion organization like the useless Nimrods comes out with a piece favorable of the pro-life position it should be e mailed to everyone you know.
fyi: pregnancy has the possibility to cure disease in mothers.
Unborn Children May "Cure" Mothers' Diseases Via Fetal Stem Cells
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1170648/posts
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posted on
02/19/2006 8:20:27 PM PST
by
Coleus
(IMHO, The IVF procedure is immoral & kills many embryos/children and should be outlawed)
To: ATOMIC_PUNK
It must REEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLYYYYY suck to be a liberal: everything they stand for and cherish is being hacked to pieces before their very eyes. The old "women will die if you ban abortion" excuse has been the centerpiece of their pro-death arguments for decades. Now, even the liberals' pantheon of deities, the UN, has proved it false.
Nothing destroys liberalism like The Truth!
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posted on
02/19/2006 9:18:17 PM PST
by
TimeLord
(A whale fetus is a whale; a human fetus is a blob.)
To: Coleus; 4lifeandliberty; AbsoluteGrace; afraidfortherepublic; Alamo-Girl; anniegetyourgun; ...
Pro-Life/Pro-Baby ping!
Where are the UN studies showing that having children increases a mother's life expectancy... and happiness... and richness of life?
Please FReepmail me if you would like to be added to, or removed from, the Pro-Life/Pro-Baby ping list...
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posted on
02/19/2006 10:36:03 PM PST
by
cgk
(I don't see myself as a conservative. I see myself as a religious, right-wing, wacko extremist.)
To: cgk
To: WorkingClassFilth
Exactly. I hope this causes a few feminazi heads to explode.
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posted on
02/20/2006 1:19:20 AM PST
by
snuffy smiff
("the theory of Communism may be summed up in a single sentence:abolition of private property"-K.Marx)
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posted on
02/28/2006 9:09:59 PM PST
by
Coleus
(What were Ted Kennedy & his nephew doing on Good Friday, 1991? Getting drunk and raping women)
To: Coleus; Colosis; Black Line; Cucullain; SomeguyfromIreland; Youngblood; Fergal; Cian; col kurz; ...
This information must be used immediately by everyone concerned about this issue but particularly by those in countries where abortion is against the law: Ireland and Poland especially. This thread is over six months old, but someone must have just added 'IRELAND' as a keyword a couple of days ago, so Ireland Ping!
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posted on
08/30/2006 10:30:14 AM PDT
by
Irish_Thatcherite
(A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!|What if I lecture Americans about America?)
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