2aguy
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One of the talking points of the pro-kill the baby in the womb side of the abortion debate is that women die more when they have children........
The truth...
You get a starkly different picture when using complete surveillance methods, with retrospective linking to medical records in countries with a single health care system. A Finnish study, for example, found that women are four times more likely to die in the year following abortion than women who give birth. In fact, women who had given birth had a lower death rate than women who had not been pregnant at all. Closer to home, a study using a complete data set recovered from California state insurance records showed twice as many women died in the two years after an abortion than after a birth (see table 1 of page 2). Causes of death in these post-abortive women included complications from the procedure — sepsis and hemorrhage, for example — though the most common causes were “indirect”: suicide, homicide, overdose, and other risk-taking behaviors.
thefederalist.com
The truth...
You get a starkly different picture when using complete surveillance methods, with retrospective linking to medical records in countries with a single health care system. A Finnish study, for example, found that women are four times more likely to die in the year following abortion than women who give birth. In fact, women who had given birth had a lower death rate than women who had not been pregnant at all. Closer to home, a study using a complete data set recovered from California state insurance records showed twice as many women died in the two years after an abortion than after a birth (see table 1 of page 2). Causes of death in these post-abortive women included complications from the procedure — sepsis and hemorrhage, for example — though the most common causes were “indirect”: suicide, homicide, overdose, and other risk-taking behaviors.
Abortion Is Not Safer Than Childbirth, But The Left Lies About It
The left relies on a faulty study that overcounted deaths from childbearing and undercounted deaths from abortion.
thefederalist.com
