"The CDC collects abortion statistics on a "voluntary" basis from state and local health departments. Not all states participate. Though abortion deaths increasingly are making it into our newspapers, few of these deaths have been included in these reports.
It's time to shine the light of truth on this subject and a good place to begin is with the FDA's approval process for RU-486."
An uninvestigated,unregulated and unmonitored $90 billion dollar industry supported by our tax dollars, elected officials and our U.S. Supreme Court.
Abortion Increases Women's Mortality Rate
Elliot Institute ^ | August 27, 2002
Posted on 08/28/2002 10:36 AM Pacific
by Got a right to Life? . . Huh?
Abortion Increases Women's Mortality Rate
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/740764/posts
Springfield, IL -- A study published in the latest issue of the Southern Medical Journal reveals that women who have abortions are at significantly higher risk of death than women who give birth. This finding contradicts the widely accepted opinion that abortion is safer than childbirth.
Researchers examined death records linked to Medi-Cal payments for births and abortions for approximately 173,000 low income Californian women. They discovered that women who had abortions were almost twice as likely to die in the following two years and that the elevated mortality rate of aborting women persisted over at least eight years.
During the eight year period studied, women who aborted had a 154 percent higher risk of death from suicide, an 82 percent higher risk of death from accidents, and a 44 percent higher risk of death from natural causes.
This is the second major record-based study to link abortion to elevated mortality rates. In 1997, a study of women in Finland sent a tremor of worry through family planning agencies when it revealed that in the first year following an abortion, aborting women were 252 percent more likely to die compared to women who delivered and 76 percent more likely to die compared to women who had not been pregnant.
This is the lie in pro "Choice". There is no concern for women nor for "choice".
If I had a dollar for everytime I heard a pro-"Choice" persons say so-and-so should have an abortion, I'd be filthy rich.
Even if you take fetuses/chilren completely out of the debate, abortion is a barbaric and inhumane practice. And one that can (and will) lead to coerced or mandated practices. Declaring abortion "safe" is just one more step in that direction. This is the ultimate agenda.