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Legal Abortion Does Not Save Women’s Lives, Report Shows : 7th Jan 10
The Elliot Institute, the leading organisation in post-abortion research, is reporting that “Many abortion advocates have long argued that abortion is necessary to protect the health and safety of women, since many would otherwise seek unsafe abortions. But an analysis of data from a new report published by the World Economic Forum (WEF) has found that countries that permit abortion don’t have lower maternal death rates”.
The Elliot Institute noted that the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-Fam) in New York looked at the data from various countries in the WEF’s 2009 “Gender Gap Report” and found that countries with the most baby-protective abortion laws also had the lowest maternal death rates, and countries with more permissive laws tended to have higher maternal death rates.
In Europe, Ireland had the lowest maternal death rate, with only one mother dying for every 100,000 live births, and Poland was ranked 27th, with eight maternal deaths per 100,000 live births. Both countries have strong laws protecting babies in the womb, whereas the USA, which has “virtually no restrictions on abortion,” suffers 11 maternal deaths for every 100,000 live births.
Data from other regions also revealed that the countries with the most baby-protective laws also lost the fewest mothers: in Africa, the country with the lowest maternal death rate (15 per 100,000) is Mauritius, which also has the firmest laws against abortion, yet Ethiopia, which recently legalised abortion, has a maternal death rate 48 times higher (720 per 100,000).
The African country with the most liberal abortion laws, South Africa, has a maternal death rate of 400 per 100,000 live births.
In Asia, Nepal gives no protection to her unborn babies and has one of the world’s highest mortality rates (830 per 100,000); Sri Lanka had the lowest maternal death rates in Asia (58 per 100,000) and one of the firmest abortion bans in the world. In South America, Chile has constitutional protection for her unborn babies and a maternal death rate of 16 per 100,000. The continent’s worst maternal death rate (430 per 100,000) was found in Guyana, which gives her babies almost no protection from the abortionists.
Ironically, C-Fam says, “one of two main justifications used for liberalising Guyana’s law was to enhance the ‘attainment of safe motherhood’ by eliminating deaths and complications associated with unsafe abortion”. The Elliot Institute agreed with C-fam’s conclusion that the WEF findings “show that legal abortion does not mean lower maternal mortality rates”. Elliot Institute News, Vol. 8, No. 13. December.
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