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A pro-abortion researcher claims that banning abortion will result in more pregnant women dying, and predicts that if Roe is overturned, pregnancy-related deaths will increase by 21%. If this is true, we would expect to see that (1) countries with legal abortion would have lower rates of pregnancy-related deaths (Maternal Mortality Rates – MMRs) than ones without legal abortion, and (2) legalizing abortion would make the maternal mortality rate go down and banning it would cause it to rise.
However, this is not what the data show.
Angela Lanfranchi et al. did an analysis of the MMRs of countries before and after they legalized abortion. They found:
[F]or many countries, the link between legal abortion and improved maternal mortality… is the reverse of what its advocates claim.
Countries that have legalized abortion such as South Africa, India, Nepal, Cambodia, and Guyana have not seen the predicted maternal health benefits. By contrast, several countries that disallow abortion, such as Chile, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Egypt, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Indonesia, Mexico, and Uganda have seen significant reductions in maternal mortality. 2 Countries that legalized abortion and saw the MMR worsen
United States : In 1971 and 1972, before Roe, the MMR in the U.S. was 18.8 per 100,000 live births. 1 Since then, the MMR has gone up, not down. In 2020, the MMR was 23.8. The MMR in the U.S. without legal abortion was lower than the rate with legal abortion. There are more pregnancy-related deaths today than before Roe. While legalizing abortion may or may not be the cause of the rising MMR (deaths from abortion are included in the numbers), it clearly did nothing to lower it.
Guyana , a developing nation, had a maternal mortality rate of 216 when abortion was illegal. Abortion was legalized there in 1995. By […]
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