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"Then there’s the mention of the factoid that women who have aborted their fetus conceived by rape, are four times more likely to die in the first year post abortion. Good grief, these two factoids are devastating to the argument that rape victims should be allowed to abort their fetus.

The factoids are wrong. Here's where the factoids come from. Which leads to this.

First, rape is not considered, only abortion. In the case of death due to natural causes, having an abortion results in a 20% less likelihood of dying than someone who has no pregnancy and only 1.6 times higher than someone who carries the pregnancy to completion. The original paper is not made available and considering the results, the very low data quantity, the lack of published variance and the lack of follow up supporting publication for this 1997 study, the study is rubbish.

What is notable in the study is that death by homicide is a bit over 4 times higher. The study applies that to risk taking behavior, but I can not believe that this level of homicide over the general population is the fault of risk taking. It probably more like poverty, or a general quality of life issue —like the neighborhood they live in.

Spunkets, thanks for the points of clarification.

I would like to see a study done that comes closer to your desired methodology. That still doesn’t mean that there is an inherent misrepresentation here.

If I understand you, it simply means you’re not inclined to buy off on the claims, because they don’t provide enough detail.

So let me get this straight: in your mind, embryos are not human & just because a human gestates in a woman’s body, abortion is ok?

What the hell is w/ all the pro-abort trolls today??