[Zeroisanumber]

OK, apples and apples. Firstly, only a small percentage of abortions are conducted on minors without parental consent or knowledge. I don't have any numbers on how many of those result in death or injury, but I imagine that it holds steady at the same rate as death/injury to adult patients.

Second, I'm not justifying abortion because it's less deadly than, say, a heart-bypass surgery. My point was that the numbers relating to risk of injury/death (and the success/failure rate of individual doctors) is available to any patient at any time pre or post-op.

In essence, I was trying to refute the "conspiracy of silence" myth that has been circulating in pro-life circles since time immemorial.

[ArGee]

OK, apples and apples. Firstly, only a small percentage of abortions are conducted on minors without parental consent or knowledge. I don't have any numbers on how many of those result in death or injury, but I imagine that it holds steady at the same rate as death/injury to adult patients.

Actually, you don't know anything about any of this. Privacy laws protect the clinics because abortion is so sensitive, don't you know. You can not have any idea how many teens are taken to clinics by their school counsellors. On the other hand, we can't know either. It is speculation on both parts. Does that bother you at all?

Second, I'm not justifying abortion because it's less deadly than, say, a heart-bypass surgery. My point was that the numbers relating to risk of injury/death (and the success/failure rate of individual doctors) is available to any patient at any time pre or post-op.

Do you know this for a fact? Do you know that abortion minded women are told everything they need to know about the procedures? Carol Everett (who used to run 3 clinics before she became a Christian) disagrees with you.

In essence, I was trying to refute the "conspiracy of silence" myth that has been circulating in pro-life circles since time immemorial.

I don't think you have succeeded yet.

Shalom.