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<p>How often do you hear a child disposal apologist repeat the talking point that abortion is safer for the mother than childbirth?</p>
<p>It’s never been quite the showstopper they hoped for, since annual pregnancy-related deaths in the United States (<a href="http://www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealth/MaternalInfantHealth/Pregnancy-relatedMortality.htm">650</a>) are less than a thousandth of 1% of the annual number of live births (<a href="http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/births.htm">3,953,590</a>), because it seems like a new abortion mill is being busted for health violations almost every week, and ultimately because it wouldn’t change the fact that abortion’s mortality rate <em>for the baby</em> is virtually 100%. <span class="post-teaser-more">&nbsp;<a href="http://heartsunitedforlife.com/?p=2456" title="Permanent Link: Peer-Reviewed Study: Abortion is Not Safer for Women Than Childbirth" rel="bookmark">Read more...</a> <i>(704 words, estimated 2:49  mins reading time)</i></span></p>

<div class="post-teaser-block">This is a preview of <q>Peer-Reviewed Study: Abortion is Not Safer for Women Than Childbirth</q>. <a href="http://heartsunitedforlife.com/?p=2456" title="Permanent Link: Peer-Reviewed Study: Abortion is Not Safer for Women Than Childbirth" rel="bookmark">Read the full post (704 words, estimated 2:49  mins reading time)</a></div>{"id":2456,"date":"2013-08-17T21:19:23","date_gmt":"2013-08-18T01:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=2456"},"modified":"2013-08-17T21:19:23","modified_gmt":"2013-08-18T01:19:23","slug":"peer-reviewed-study-abortion-is-not-safer-for-women-than-childbirth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=2456","title":{"rendered":"Peer-Reviewed Study: Abortion is Not Safer for Women Than Childbirth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>How often do you hear a child disposal apologist repeat the talking point that abortion is safer for the mother than childbirth?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s never been quite the showstopper they hoped for, since annual pregnancy-related deaths in the United States (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/reproductivehealth\/MaternalInfantHealth\/Pregnancy-relatedMortality.htm\">650<\/a>) are less than a thousandth of 1% of the annual number of live births (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/fastats\/births.htm\">3,953,590<\/a>), because it seems like a new abortion mill is being busted for health violations almost every week, and ultimately because it wouldn\u2019t change the fact that abortion\u2019s mortality rate\u00a0<em>for the baby<\/em>\u00a0is virtually 100%. <span class=\"post-teaser-more\">&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=2456\" title=\"Permanent Link: Peer-Reviewed Study: Abortion is Not Safer for Women Than Childbirth\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read more...<\/a> <i>(704 words, estimated 2:49  mins reading time)<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"post-teaser-block\">This is a preview of <q>Peer-Reviewed Study: Abortion is Not Safer for Women Than Childbirth<\/q>. <a href=\"http:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=2456\" title=\"Permanent Link: Peer-Reviewed Study: Abortion is Not Safer for Women Than Childbirth\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read the full post (704 words, estimated 2:49  mins reading time)<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Peer-Reviewed Study: Abortion is Not Safer for Women Than Childbirth - Hearts United For Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=2456\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Peer-Reviewed Study: Abortion is Not Safer for Women Than Childbirth - Hearts United For Life\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; How often do you hear a child disposal apologist repeat the talking point that abortion is safer for the mother than childbirth? 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