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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