Posted on 02/20/2006 2:53:02 AM PST by rhema
Abortion advocates made the argument to legalize abortion in the United States and they make the same one to topple pro-life laws in other nations: making abortion illegal will increase women's deaths. However, a new report from the United Nations indicates that's just not so. According to new figures from the United Nations Populations Division, nations with laws legalizing abortion have not seen a corresponding drop in the rate of maternal deaths.
They do not experience lower rates of maternal mortality compared to nation's that have made abortions illegal.
The information is found in the "World Mortality Report: 2005" which the Population Division released last month. The UN says it's the first of its kind and registers maternal and infant mortality for every nation.
According to the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute, a pro-life group that lobbies at the UN, the report reveals that Russia, where abortion has long been considered a form of birth control, a maternal mortality rate of 67 deaths for every 100,000 births.
The rate is 17 deaths for every 100,000 births in the United States, which also has very permissive abortion laws.
On the other hand, CFHRI reports in its Friday Fax that Ireland and Poland have lower rates. Both countries have come under strong protest from abortion advocates, who even sent an abortion ship to Poland in order to promote abortions there.
Ireland has the lowest maternal mortality rate of Poland, the U.S. and Russia with just 5 deaths for every 100,000 births. Poland's is also lower with 13 deaths for every 100,000 births.
Pro-abortion laws also do not decrease infant mortality, even when the number of abortions is subtracted from the number of infant deaths.
Ireland has the lowest rate at 6 deaths for every 1,000 live births, both Poland and the U.S. are at 7 deaths for every 1,000 live babies born, and pro-abrotion Russia has the highest at 12 deaths per 1,000 babies born.
While abortion advocates exaggerated the number of women who died from abortions prior to it becoming legal in 1973, Dr. Bernard Nathanson, the former founder of NARAL, admitted that his group drastically inflated the number of abortions deaths to grab media attention.
Meanwhile, other reports have shown that the advancement of medical technology, including the invention of penicillin, led to a decrease in the number of illegal abortion deaths -- not legalizing abortion.
And the alternative is the death of Western Civilization.
If abortion is continues to be legal it will lead to the death of Western Civilization.
One of the other things that makes it very difficult to get real statistics on abortion and its effect on women is that in most states (in the US), abortion providers are not subject to the same medical reporting requirements as other medical personnel. I remember when a young woman in NYC died of negligence at an abortion clinic - one of those dirty little holes run by a Pakistani immigrant "doctor" - amd one of the things that emerged was that the city and state had no idea of how many incidents of this nature occurred, because abortionists were not required to report such things. Only when the woman actually died at the place and there was no way of avoiding it did these things ever become public.
This is the same reason that abortion clinics, unlike other medical providers, do not have to report suspected child abuse of their underage patients, etc. There are laws exempting them from virtually any reporting, thanks to the diligent work of pro-abortion legislators.
So statistics specifically on abortion are hard to come by, and doing it in a sort of generalized way - by using gross maternal death statistics per country - is probably the only way to get a general idea. But while it proves that making abortion illegal does not result in more deaths, it still does not tell us how many women actually die from abortion or its complications, something the pro-abortionists are very eager to hide.
quote "the former founder of NARAL, admitted that his group drastically inflated the number of abortions deaths to grab media attention"
I can guarantee you that the enviromental wacko's are doing the same thing with global warming data.
Truth, reason, common sense, justice, morality, virtue, and God's law, all take a back seat to man's/women's desire to do whatever the hell a small almost miniscule percentage of society wants to do. I cannot/will not believe that the majority of folks in this country believe the supreme court of the land has any valid reason or authority, for legalizing the death of a developing child whether inside or outside the womb of the mother, and contrary to the very laws of nature.
It is common knowledge that in the case before the supreme court in 1973 of Roe v Wade, that evidence given in that case could be called in reality, a pack of lies, distortions, half and quarter truths all long ago debunked. It is high time the supreme court got off it's high horse and vacated that 1973 idiocy, and return the power of decision back to the states from whence it came. In the name of false witness, and judicial fiat, that which is heinous, and barbaric, has become over the years a non enumerated right, instead of the generational holocaust it truly is.
"that the city and state had no idea of how many incidents of this nature occurred, because abortionists were not required to report such things."
- Liberals do not want people to know that their ideology is a lie so they will try to conceal, distract or obstruct any attempt for people to discern it.
The Bible clearly states that the shedding of innocent blood is an abomination unto the Lord; there is no more innocent blood than that of an unborn child. Abortion WILL lead to the death of western civilization.
Bingo.
This one is easy to figure out.
The more money that is spent on abortion in developing countries, the LESS money is spent on basic healthcare and nutrition for women and children, and the less money is spent on safer childbirth care.
Maternal deathrate is directly attributable to poor overall heathcare and nutrition for women and lack of basic safe childbirth means.
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