Fewer Abortions Could Mean Better Healthcare For Women
Well now here is something to think about. One of the major arguments that pro-abortion folk use is: Abortion lowers the maternal fatality rate. Or to say it another way -- abortion is good for women's health.
However, data out of Poland seems to totally undermine that assertion.
Why has Poland made such strides in improving both maternal and infant health? Certainly not by spending a lot of money on “reproductive health services,” to use the preferred euphemism. Poland is a poor country, much poorer than either Canada or its immediate European neighbours. The money simply isn’t there for any lavish program to improve maternal and infant health. The only change that could have produced such a dramatic improvement is the documented decline in the induced abortion rate.
Since 1989, Poland has virtually banned induced abortion. According to official statistics, the annual legal abortion rate has plummeted from well over 100,000 in the 1980s to a few hundred in the 1990s, and that very low rate has been maintained up to the present. There is little evidence of a widespread resort to illegal abortion, nor have significant numbers of Polish women gone to other countries seeking abortions.
Interestingly, the only other European country where abortion is illegal — Ireland — also boasts very low maternal mortality. By comparison, countries where abortion is completely legal — the United States and Poland’s immediate neighbours, Russia and Hungary — have much higher maternal and infant death rates.
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Women's Health is a major pillar in the pro-abortion movement here in America and if that pillar crumbles under the weight of facts and hard data like this, then how long will it be until other major pillars begin to shake? Could fewer abortions mean better health care for women? It certainly seems like this could be the case.
Folks, facts are stubborn things and try as one may, none can escape them.
All this talk of pillars crumbling makes me thing of a bible verse (I think you know where I'm going here):
The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and battered that house, and it collapsed, and its collapse was total." Matthew 7:27
What do you think of this research? Sound off in the comments.
About the Author
Ian Kelly is the "arm chair pundit" at Moral Outcry. He has worked full time for Bound4LIFE since 2007. His other responsibilities include local chapter development and new media communications. Besides being a political junkie, he enjoys history, sci-fi, super heroes and grilling.
