Would a hepatitis death from an abortion-related blood transfusion be counted as abortion death?
Looking at the above, one is tempted to comment that the comparison of abortion deaths to childbirth deaths is not only comparing apples with oranges, but has so many qualifying factors and unknowns that any type of reasonably accurate comparison is all but impossible. Because of the above factors we can start by dismissing out of hand the abortion industry’s often repeated claim that “abortion is seven times safer than childbirth.” This is pure nonsense and has no basis in fact. To find our way through this, let’s explore the above areas one at a time and see if we can come to an accurate answer. Let’s start with maternal mortality. A United Nations agency has recently inaccurately reported that in the US there are 17 maternal deaths for every 100,000 live births. The US Center for Disease Control (CDC) has been reporting a very slow decrease, now down to approximately 6 deaths. However, the Council on Scientific Affairs of the American Medical Association a few years ago noted that i
