Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Does abortion on demand really help women's health?

Abortion supporters often argue women will die if abortions are banned. National Right to Life's blog yesterday examined how prolife countries like Chile and Ireland have better maternal mortality figures than the U.S. with our abortion-on-demand. Women's health is about education, clean medical facilities and well-trained doctors, not the deaths of millions of unborn children.

Both Chile and Ireland are placed among the world safest nations for motherhood in their respective regions.
In the case of Chile, excluding deaths due to non-obstetric causes (also called indirect causes), 30 maternal deaths were registered during 2010, with a mortality ratio of 11.9 per 100,000 live births. This places Chile second only to Canada in the American continent, with better maternal health than the United States of America.

In Ireland, only three maternal deaths were registered out of 74,976 live births, giving a mortality ratio of four per 100,000 live births, and placing this country among the five nations with the lowest maternal mortality in Europe.

Interestingly, these two countries have the least permissive abortion laws in the world, while still displaying negligible abortion-related mortality. This challenges the myth according to which the restriction of abortion leads to hundreds — even thousands – of deaths due to abortion. That is untrue.

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