One
of the first countries to legalize abortion in the last 50 years was USA. One
of the main abortion advocacy groups, an obstetrician, Bernard Nathanson, the
head of NEHRA, when they were advocating for abortion, said that 5-10,000 women
were dying in the US every year from unsafe abortion. Well, he later explained
that he was lying and he made it completely up. He says, ‘I confess that these figures were totally false, but it was a useful
figure, so there was no need to correct it with honest statistics.’
It's
actually demonstrable that these statistics are almost universally
misrepresented. In Kenya, the Center for Reproductive Rights claims that 35% of
all pregnancy related mortality is from unsafe abortion. They get this from the
Kenya Demographic and Health Survey 1998, that's nearly a quarter of a century
ago now. But what's more remarkable is that the Kenya DHS 1998 doesn't even
mention deaths from unsafe abortion once. In Uganda, the Center for
Reproductive Rights says unsafe abortion causes as much as 26%, over a quarter
of all maternal deaths. The reference is a submission to the UK parliament
2008, which doesn't appear to be scrutinized, it’s certainly not peer reviewed
and certainly not official data.
Recently Kenyan ministry of health showed that
only 5% of maternal deaths are due to all abortion whether spontaneous
(miscarriage) or induced abortion. While
you might hear claims that abortion is responsible for thousands of women dying
maybe 25, 30% of maternal deaths, the reality is that at most 5% of maternal
deaths are due to abortion, most are from miscarriage rather than induced
abortion.
But a key policy question is, would legalizing abortion have saved those women? Studies in Europe show that a woman who had an abortion was 3.5 times more likely to die within a year compared to a woman who carried to term. She was 7 times as likely to commit suicide, twice as likely to die of an accident, and 4 times as likely to be murdered!. Poland had legal abortion under communism in 1990 and 1993 they restored protection to pre-born children then maternal mortality drastically fell after they criminalized abortion. Chile legalized abortion in 1931 and maternal mortality rate shot up straight away, but when it criminalized abortion again in 1989, the maternal mortality rate continued to decline along the normal trends. In the US deaths from abortive outcomes i.e miscarriages and abortion drastically reduced long before abortion was legalized and that's because of developments primarily in antibiotics not the case that legalizing abortion was having a radical effect on the number of women dying from abortion. After South Africa legalized abortion in '96, in 1997 maternal mortality rate tripled, the number of maternal deaths and even deaths from abortion and miscarriage specifically increased after abortion was legalized. Over the previous decade to this last one in the 2000s. Ethiopia had declining maternal mortality rates, Legalizing abortion in 2005, 2006 made absolutely no difference to the maternal mortality rate.
Our Mothers need better Healthcare, not Abortions
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