Mother's Life at Risk
\r\nWith advances in modern medicine there are almost no conditions in pregnancy and childbirth that require abortion to save the mother's life. The exceptions are mainly tubal pregnancy and uterine cancer.
- Abortion advocates claim that every pregnancy threatens a woman's life.
- The person determining "mental health" is a gynaecologist not a psychiatrist.
- Young teenage mothers have the least complications in childbirth.
- The principle of 'double effect' means the intention is to save the woman's life, not deliberately to kill the foetus.
- An example of 'double effect' is a tubal pregnancy which is invariably fatal to the mother.
- The leading cause of death during pregnancy is murder.
"Today it is possible for almost any patient to be brought through pregnancy alive, unless she suffers from a fatal disease such as cancer or leukemia, and if so, abortion would be unlikely to prolong, much less save the life"Alan Guttmacher, who succeeded Margaret Sanger as head of Planned Parenthood, probably did more to spread abortion on demand throughout the world than any other individual. Considerable advances have been made in medicine since he made that statement.
Abortion activists have successfully used the same two step strategy to legalise abortion in countries around the world. First is the campaign to have abortion legal in the "hard" cases of incest and abortion. An example is where a very young teenage girl, say 13-years old, is pregnant as a result of rape or incest. The incidence of pregnancy resulting from rape or incest is around 1 percent. In many cases abortion is performed against the wishes of the girl, and is in fact used to cover-up the crime.
The next step in the campaign is to expand the exceptions for abortion to include cases of "severe foetal abnormality" and to "save the life of the mother," which is then expanded to "when the physical or mental health of the mother is at risk." This last definition is taken by abortionists to mean abortion on demand and 98-99 percent of all abortions for performed for 'mental health' reasons.
Widespread exploitation of the "mental health" clause is the same the world over.
Dr. Carlos del Campose, who surveyed literature on the subject of children born to women refused abortion for various reasons
concluded:
"The literature shows a generally comparable outcome of pregnancy, delivery and puerperium [the period
immediately following childbirth] between women who were denied abortion and
controls.
"No evidence that a continued unwanted pregnancy will endanger the mother's mental health; good acceptance of the infant by the mother, especially if she has the father's support; and minimal to moderate psychosocial disadvantages for the child."
Life At Risk
John F. Murphy, M.D. and Diernan O'Driscoll, M.D writing in "Therapeutic Abortion: The Medical Argument." Irish Medical Journal, August 1982, pages 304 to 306 said:"There is now general agreement that pregnancy does not alter the natural history of disease, so that, provided a woman survives the immediate challenge, neither her health nor her life-expectancy is permanently changed."Abortion advocates believe that extreme youth is a reason for abortion on the grounds that childbirth would endanger the life of the girl. Some even go as far as saying that abortion should be mandatory for all girls 14 and under.
Any treatment administered to save a woman's life that also results in the death of a preborn child is not a true abortion.
Although legally and medically, this procedure is the same as a typical suction abortion, it is different in several critical ways. In the majority of cases, the pregnancy is wanted and the intent of the surgical procedure is to save life. In the future, doctors hope to be able to remove the embryo intact and transfer it to the uterus, where it will be successfully implanted. See here for a list of Conditions that do not require abortion.
Many New or Expectant Mothers Die Violent Deaths
Five years ago in Maryland, state health researchers Isabelle Horon and Diana Cheng set out to study maternal deaths, using sophisticated methods to spot dozens of overlooked cases in their state. They assumed they would find more deaths from medical complications than the state's statistics showed. The last thing they expected was murder.A Washington Post article on December 19, 2004 reported the findings of a year-long investigation of death-record data in states across the country documents the killings of 1,367 pregnant women and new mothers since 1990. They believe this is only part of the national toll, because no reliable system is in place to track such cases.
The Post quoted Pat Brown, a criminal profiler in Minneapolis, on December 19: "If the woman doesn't want the baby, she can get an abortion. If the guy doesn't want it, he can't do a damn thing about it. He is stuck with a child for the rest of his life, he is stuck with child support for the rest of his life, and he's stuck with that woman for the rest of his life. If she goes away, the problem goes away."
Crime expert Louis Mizell said, "When husbands or boyfriends attack pregnant partners, it usually has to do with an unwillingness to deal with fatherhood, marriage, child support or public scandal."
Read the Washington Post article here...
In conclusion
Even before the legalisation of abortion around the world, there were very few instances where a woman could not obtain an abortion in order to save her life.To use the argument that abortion is safer than childbirth because every pregnancy puts the mother's life at risk, is seen by those opposed to abortion as a smokescreen, especially when advances in medicine are elimating, or at least controlling, most of the conditions that could have resulted in the death of a pregnant woman.