While abortion activists claim terminating a pregnancy is safer for the woman, several studies reflect that giving birth is less dangerous.
The latest study involves records on a half-million women in Denmark. It concludes that childbirth is indeed safer than abortion.
Dr. David Reardon of the Elliot Institute explains that statisticians looked at records over a 30-year period before making this analysis.
"[They] were able to look at link records, death certificate records and the complete reproductive history," he details, "and the results showed that compared to women who gave birth, women who had abortions were about twice as likely to die in each of the ten years following an abortion. It was evident even within the first 180 days."
Reardon tells OneNewsNow there is a problem with the information presented by abortion proponents in this country.
"[They] basically take reports of maternal deaths and abortion deaths, when there's no systematic way of gathering them, and they just claim that abortion is like 14 times safer than childbirth," he says.
"Whereas, in fact, three different data sets from three different countries -- the United States, Finland and Denmark -- show that the opposite is true, that abortion has a higher mortality rate than childbirth."
The Elliot Institute founder adds that two of the studies reveal that in the first year after an abortion, the biggest cause of death is suicide.
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Source: OneNewsNow.com
