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Pro-life website exaggerates death risk from abortion

by Luci Ernaga
The abortion "facts" website doesn't seem to have its facts straight, as a little bit of internet research proved this evening.
Note the abortion facts website q and a about the risk of death from childbirth "Reported average maternal mortality 1979 through 1986 was 9.1 per 100,000 deliveries, having declined from 11 to 7.4. Morbidity & Mortality Report, July 1991, Cent. Dis. Cont., Vol. 40, No. 55-1 If all causes of maternal death, other than those associated with live birth i.e., abortion, tubal pregnancy, molar pregnancy, etc., were
excluded. . . . "the maternal mortality for 1985 would be 4.7 deaths per 100,000 live births." "Induced Termination of Preg . . . ," Council on Scientific Affairs, AMA; JAMA, Dec. 9, ’92, Vol. 268, No. 22, p. 3231 147"

Ok, so now that we have read how many women die in childbirth per 100,000, we are curious to find out the rate of death after abortion. The website claims that Center for Disease Control workers have links to the abortion
industry (?!!), lists some of the factors that can cause death
post-abortion, without numbers per 100,000 abortions, and also says:
"These have been grossly under-reported. The expose’ on this is detailed in Lime 5 published by Life Dynamics. The author and his staff have
verified 23 deaths from induced abortion in 1992-93. All were reported to
state agencies. There is documentation from state health departments that
18 were reported to the Federal Center for Disease Control. However, the
official report of the CDC listed only 2 deaths. "At Life Dynamics we knew
abortion complications were grotesquely under-reported, but attributed it to garden-variety bureaucratic incompetence." But after continuing research, they documented "that the flawed abortion data from the CDC was not from ineptitude but of dishonesty and manipulation" after finding that "a large percentage of CDC employees had direct ties to the abortion industry," they retitled the CDC to stand for "Center for Damage Control" — "The CDC doesn’t oversee abortion, it justifies it." M. Crutcher, Lime 5-Exploited by Choice, Genesis Pub., Chapter 4, "Cooking the Books," p. 135."

http://www.abortionfacts.com/online_books/love_them_both/why_cant_we_love_them_both_21.asp#What%20is%20the%20maternal%20mortality%20from%20childbirth?

I can see one chart of CDC figures for maternal mortality at
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/tables/2002/02hus044.pdf (1990 is 7.6 deaths per 100,000 live births).

the abortion rate is laid out here on the CDC's abortion surveillance website:
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss5109a1.htm

Tables 1 and 19 indicate that 10 women out of 884,273 women who had abortions in 1998 died as a result of having had an abortion (one of them may have been a spontaneous abortion, or miscarriage). Hm, what's that rate of death from abortion? Less than 2 per 100,000? How can this figure be so much smaller than what the pro-lifers are claiming? And for the years in question, the figures are startlingly different from the ones that the abortion "facts" people are claiming (1992-93 total is 19 deaths per...well, there are no totals available for abortions performed in 1993. Let's just use the 1992 figure. So...19 deaths per 1,359.146 abortions. Less than 2 per 100,000. Not too bad, compared to childbirth.

I would be interested to hear more recent figures, especially for deaths from abortions
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