Isnt abortion safer than childbirth?
Planned Parenthoods website claims that there are 8.9 deaths per one million abortions performed after 20 weeks gestation, whereas maternal mortality is 12.1 per 100,000 birthsshowing a significant difference in terminating a pregnancy by abortion after 20 weeks gestation and carrying it to term. To determine if abortion really is safer, there are a number of issues we must consider. First, what is maternal mortality and how is it determined? According to a CDC report , “maternal deaths” include “the death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management.” This definition includes deaths from hemorrhages, embolisms (blood clots), tubal (ectopic) pregnancies, infections, complications from high blood pressure or diabetes, etc. Another study clarifies that a death is “considered pregnancy related if [it] had a temporal or causal relationship to pregnancy” (emphasis added)so a woman who dies
