Posted on 02/28/2006 4:44:32 PM PST by wagglebee
(AgapePress) - Several new studies reveal an unprecedented accuracy in linking women's medical records to their death certificates when comparing abortion and childbirth mortality rates. Such findings could possibly change the application of the 33-year-old Roe v. Wade ruling -- which legalized abortion -- while alerting medical professionals to common risk factors associated with abortion and death.
One of the studies, which is part of a series, was completed by researchers from the National Research and Development Center for Welfare and Health in Finland. Its findings disputed the age-old presumption that abortion is linked to fewer deaths than is childbirth -- that is, when a woman's pregnancy history is examined linking her medical records to her death certificate.
With proper identification of pregnancy history, the death rate associated with abortion was found to be three times higher than the rate associated with childbirth.
According to Walter Weber, an attorney with the American Center for Law & Justice who specializes in abortion law, the findings provided by these studies set a new basis for state regulation of abortion even within the realm of Roe v. Wade.
"The claim that abortion was safer than childbirth, at least early in pregnancy, was accepted as a crucial fact in Roe v. Wade," Weber said, but is now being challenged by these recent findings.
In addition, a similar study conducted over a 13-year period by the same research center revealed a direct correlation between abortion and death specifically from suicide, accidents, and homicide. Once again, medical records were linked that signified a relationship between the cause of death and abortion. Some of the findings include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Female deaths from suicide, accidents, and homicide were 248 percent higher in the year following an abortion when compared to deaths among women who had not been pregnant the previous year.
- Women who had an abortion were six times as likely to commit suicide than women who gave birth the previous year.
- The results of a 1997 Finland-based study were confirmed, which found women who had had an abortion were 3.5 times more likely to die in the following year as compared to women who gave birth.
There is no certainty as to how these studies and their findings will affect the availability of abortion, but it will definitely heighten the social, legal, and medical debates that surround it.
I don't think the Culture of Death really cares who dies.
Pro-Life Ping.
Abortion is always linked with death.
How about the death of the victim of abortion? What is on their death certificate?
Well, one "successful" abortion always equals at least ONE death...
Bump
This is the death knell of Roe v. Wade. We need to get on this and push it to the front.
It would appear that many women who feel they cant live with a child to support, cant live so well after they have killed it either.
Bring back common sense to adoption. Once you have legally adopted a child that child is yours and the natural mother, father or whoever cant change their mind two years down the line.
A "BioHazard" sticker on the incineration barrel
If this were a sane world, I would say "Homicide" would be the appropriate cause, which it is. Perhaps "Homicide by abortion" would be the right terminology.
I'm very surprised that this report saw the light of day.
Well Duh!
My thought exactly when I read the headline.
Gee - when 100% of abortions result in AT LEAST one death.... duh...
I know what you're saying, but I think the ACLJ will make noise about it. This info will get around....
Never knew Roe v. Wade was an international ruling. Somebody please let me know how the murder of our own innocents reflect on the abortion statistics in Finland. And if it does, what does it have to do with our own permissive, paid-for government?
I believe the point is that the affects of abortion on a woman's physical and emotional health are probably the same in the United States as they are in Finland. Unless you are operating under the assumption that medical discoveries are only valid if they are made by American researchers.
Just as birth is always linked with life, within the bounds of survibality. What exactly was your point?
Sorry to have been obtuse. The child is killed.
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