Posted on 01/24/2012 2:23:13 PM PST by SeekAndFind
(Reuters Health) - Getting a legal abortion is much safer than giving birth, suggests a new U.S. study published Monday.
Researchers found that women were about 14 times more likely to die during or after giving birth to a live baby than to die from complications of an abortion.
Experts say the findings, though not unexpected, contradict some state laws that suggest abortions are high-risk procedures.
The message is that getting an abortion and giving birth are both safe, said Dr. Anne Davis, who studies obstetrics and gynecology at the Columbia University Medical Center in New York, and wasn't involved in the new study.
"We wouldn't tell people, 'Don't have a baby because it's safer to have an abortion' -- that's ridiculous," she told Reuters Health. "We're trying to help women who are having all reproductive experiences know what to expect."
An induced abortion -- like any other medical procedure -- requires getting informed consent from the woman, said Dr. Bryna Harwood, an ob-gyn from the University of Illinois in Chicago who also didn't participate in the new research.
That means women understand and acknowledge the risks of their different options.
What makes it complicated, Harwood added, is when the law interferes and requires doctors to state information that isn't always balanced or medically sound -- usually exaggerating the risk of abortion.
The researchers on the new study combined government data on live births and pregnancy- and abortion-related deaths with estimates on legal abortions performed in the U.S. from the Guttmacher Institute, which conducts sexual and reproductive health research and education.
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So does that mean abstinence is safer than having sex?
Maybe they should do a "study" to find out if abortion is safe for the unborn.
To who. I understand they’re 100% fatal to the baby.
Abortion safer than giving birth? What a morally bankrupt headline. Not safe at all for babies. Hardly any baby escapes abortion alive, and when they do it is news. I have met abortion survivor Gianna Jessen and heard her life story with my own ears.
see:
http://www.abortionfacts.com/survivors/giannajessen.asp
“Getting a legal abortion is much safer than giving birth”
It’s not safer for the dead baby, now is it?
Study says abortion is safer, unless you’re a BABY.
Oh for goodness sakes! We are much further along than I thought.
It is safer to shoot someone than to be shot . . . so let’s have more shooters!
Especially after several abortions.
But never, ever, ever NEARLY as satisfying. Giving birth was rhe most beautiful, rewarding, and loving experience I have ever had in my entire life. It renews itself every single second of every minute of every day. A true miracle directly from G-d. Woe unto them who murder G-d’s greatest gift to mankind.
And some just like the power of killin’...
o they even factor in the Breast Cancer concerns?
Abortion always kills babies.
Oy Vey! The Guttmacher Institute, huh? Wikepedia says this about this "unbiased" research group:
The Guttmacher Institute in 1968 was founded as the "Center for Family Planning Program Development", a semi-autonomous division of The Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
This is all one needs to know about the veracity of their estimated "research."
1. It appears that the only negative outcome examined here is death. One wonders how the results would have turned out if negative outcomes such as breast dancer, suicide, depression and other common results of abortion had been studied.
2. Even looking only at maternal death, it is well-known that the actual number of abortion-related deaths is grossly minimized by the baby-killing industry, to avoid potential liability as well as further negative publicity.
The informed consent laws and such won’t work because i’ve already read an article that various clinics are calling out the “state scripted very biased information” They also say that they provide their own informed consent materials and bad mouth state required materials. they tell patients, state mandated information is misleading and inaccurate and just want to cause problems for women. They also said they will go over a long list of facts, pain, high risks, and permanant damage that may result regarding childbirth and pregnancy.
Indeed! Always "safer" to be a member of the firing squad than the other way around.
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