[Wamvan] Abortion Safer Than Giving Birth: Study

[Joanna Chiu]

Have any WAMmers written about this?

Excerpted from Reuters, see:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/23/us-abortion-idUSTRE80M2BS20120123



ABORTION SAFER THAN GIVING BIRTH: STUDY

By Genevra Pittman, January 23, 2012



NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Getting a legal abortion is much safer than
giving birth, suggests a new U.S. study published Monday (in the journal
Obstetrics & Gynecology). Researchers found that women were about 14 times
more likely to die during or after giving birth to a live baby than to die
from complications of an abortion.



Experts say the findings, though not unexpected, contradict some state laws
that suggest abortions are high-risk procedures ( . . . ) What makes it
complicated ( . . . ) is when the law interferes and requires doctors to
state information that isn't always balanced or medically sound -- usually
exaggerating the risk of abortion.



The researchers on the new study combined government data on live births
and pregnancy- and abortion-related deaths with estimates on legal
abortions performed in the U.S. from the Guttmacher Institute, which
conducts sexual and reproductive health research and education ( . . . )
Most abortions have typically been done surgically ( . . . ) but since the
abortion drug mifepristone was approved for use in the United States in
2000, the number of medically-induced abortions has been on the rise. Both
methods are now considered equally safe ( . . . )  with the main risk --
though very small -- coming from medication- and procedure-related
infections ( . . . )



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