Abortion 14 Times Safer Than Giving Birth, Claims Study

Abortion Is 14 Times Safer Than Giving Birth, Claims Study: Having a legal abortion is up to 14 times safer than giving birth, a controversial new study claims. American researchers from the Columbia University Medical Center in New York, suggest that women are more likely to die during or after childbirth than from complications of an abortion.

Researchers came to this conclusion after studying data from a leading sexual and reproductive health research centre, the Guttmacher Institute, on live births, pregnancy and abortion-related deaths.

Editor: That's like the pot being allowed to define "black."

At least the article gives Anthony Ozimic of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, the last word: "Whatever the merits or otherwise of this study and its authors’ conclusions, the fact remains that the Republic of Ireland, where abortion is banned, has one of the world’s best records on maternal health, better than the US or the UK where abortion is available easily. The key to saving pregnant women's lives, whether in the developed or developing world, are improvements in primary healthcare and specialist pregnancy care. Abortion neither treats conditions nor cures illness."

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