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Sinclair Ferguson

Some Facts Abortion

Some Facts Abortion

Some FACTS: FACT: There appears to be current evidence of at least as many fatalities after legal as illegal abortions. According to the C.D.C., in every year since abortion was legalized, MORE women have been killed by legal abortion than illegal abortion — as many as seven times more deaths have been caused by legal abortion and the number may be higher. [1] FACT: Abortion deaths are classified as maternal mortality deaths. Example: If 10 women died of abortion and no one died of any other maternal mortality cause, maternal mortality would show 10 deaths. [2] N.O.W. claims: Until 1973, abortion was illegal in most states. However laws never stopped abortion; they only made poor women and teenagers risk their lives to obtain illegal abortions in “back alleys” or to attempt self-induced abortion. Prior to Roe vs. Wade, the mortality rate for illegal abortions performed outside hospitals by persons without medical training was an estimated 100 deaths per 100,000 abortions. FACT: In 1972, the year before the legalization of abortion, there were only 39 deaths from illegal abortion and 24 deaths from legal abortion. [3] The C.D.C. reports show 90 deaths from ALL types of abortion in 1972. Legal, 24; illegal, 39; Spontaneous, 25; Other, 0; Unknown, 2. [4] According to the C.D.C., 18 women died as a result of abortion in 1982; of the 18 deaths, 11 were associated with legally-induced abortion, 6 with spontaneous abortion and 1 from illegal abortion. [5] N.O.W. claims: Abortions were common even when illegal. An estimated one million abortions occurred annually before the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. Illegal abortions all too frequently resulted in women being killed or their reproductive organs being so damaged they were never able to have children. FACT: In 1972, the year before the legalization of abortion there were only 596,760 abortions. Since then, abortions have more than tripled. [6] An American obstetrician surveyed 486 colleagues: 87% had hospitalized women with complications from legal abortion; 91% had treated patients with complications from legal abortion; and 29 doctors reported patients dying from legally-induced abortions. [7] N.O.W. claims: There is no proven biological moment when life begins. FACT: “Physicians, biologists, and other scientists agree that conception [they defined fertilization and conception to be the same] marks the beginning of the life of a human being — a being that is alive and is a member of the human species. There is overwhelming agreement on this point in countless medical, biological, and scientific writing.” [8]

OTHER EVIDENCE OF THE DANGERS OF LEGAL ABORTION: FACT: Legal abortion is now the leading cause of abortion- related maternal deaths in the U.S. [9] FACT: The younger the patient, the greater the gestation, the higher the complication rate. [10] FACT: Infection is the main cause of death associated with legal abortion in the U.S. [11] FACT: Exact incidence of abortion complications are unknown because: 1. Many women don’t know the name of the doctor who performs the abortion. 2. The abortionist is often not the doctor who sees the complication. 3. Less than 40% of patients go back to the clinic where they were harmed. 4. Infection or other damage may not be recorded as abortion-related. 5. Selective under-reporting may occur. 6. Federal and State laws which require reporting of complications are not enforced, and often considered unconstitutional. [12]

[1] Abortion Surveillance, 1975, Centers for Disease Control [2] _Every Woman has a Right to Know the Dangers of Legal Abortion_,

Anne Saltenberger, Air Plus Publishers [3] C.D.C. Surveillance Summaries, Vol. 36, No. 1SS, p. 38SS [4] Ibid. Table 21, Page 41SS
[5] Ibid. p. 38SS
[6] Ibid. p. 12SS Table 1
[7] Deaths and Near Deaths from Legal Abortion, M.J. Bulfin, M.D.,

1975
[8] Report, Subcommittee on Separation of Powers to Senate Judiciary

Committee S-158, 97th. Congress, 1st. Session 1981, p. 7 [9] American Journal of OB. & GYN., 130(3) 375, Feb., 1978 [10] “Surveillance of Abortion Program in N.Y.C. Clinic” OB. & GYN.,

March, 1971 (NOTE: Prior to Roe v. Wade) [11] OB. & GYN., Survey, pp. 177-191, 1979 [12] Saltenberger, _Every Woman_