{"id":1569924,"date":"2022-07-25T13:08:06","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T17:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1569924"},"modified":"2022-07-25T13:08:26","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T17:08:26","slug":"ian-haworth-no-abortion-is-not-safer-than-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ian-haworth-no-abortion-is-not-safer-than-birth\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian Haworth: No, Abortion Is NOT \u201cSafer Than Birth\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fian-haworth-no-abortion-is-not-safer-than-birth%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1569924&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">The Women\u2019s March\u2019s inane comment prompts an obvious question: abortion is safer for whom?<\/h3>\n<div dir=\"auto\" class=\"body markup\">\n<p>The Women\u2019s March is no stranger to controversy. Whether it be the donning of \u201cpussy hats\u201d to protest Donald Trump, or accusations of anti-Semitism at the highest level of the organization, the movement is prone to doing and saying pretty silly things.<\/p>\n<p><span>But now they\u2019ve moved on to murderous lies, with the Women\u2019s March Twitter account <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/womensmarch\/status\/1550186094989279234\" rel=\"\">posting<\/a><span> the following:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>\u201cAbortion is safer than giving birth. Just saying.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>This inane comment prompts an obvious question: safer <\/span><em>for whom<\/em><span>?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Before getting to the obvious fact that abortion is <\/span><em>not <\/em><span>safer than birth for one human in this equation, we must first presume that the Women\u2019s March means having an abortion is safer for the mother.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Now, in terms of binary \u201clife or death,\u201d that\u2019s certainly true based on available data, but not by much.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span>According to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/70\/ss\/ss7009a1.htm#T15_down\" rel=\"\">CDC<\/a><span>, there were 0.4 deaths of women per 100,000 legal induced abortions. In both 2017 and 2018, two women died from legal induced abortions. In 2016, six women died from legal induced abortions, while one woman died from an illegal induced abortion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Conversely, the maternal mortality rate for 2020 was 23.8 deaths per 100,000 live births, based on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/hestat\/maternal-mortality\/2020\/maternal-mortality-rates-2020.htm#:~:text=In%202020%2C%20861%20women%20were,20.1%20in%202019%20(Table).\" rel=\"\">CDC data<\/a><span>, or 0.0238%.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Meanwhile, according to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/books\/NBK430793\/\" rel=\"\">National Center for Biotechnology Information<\/a><span>, approximately 2% of all abortions in the U.S. involve some form of complication, noting that \u201cmost complications are considered minor such as pain, bleeding, infection and post-anesthesia complications.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>But, based on the notion that life or death is the only metric of survival, and that women are almost 60 times more likely to die during childbirth than during an abortion (according to the CDC), the Women\u2019s March would be correct if their tweet had included, \u201c\u2026safer for women,\u201d if we ignore the multitude of post-abortion symptoms which don\u2019t include death, including long-term psychological distress.<\/p>\n<p><span>But the Women\u2019s March <\/span><em>didn\u2019t<\/em><span> include the suffix \u201cfor women,\u201d which means they ignored the other human being whose life is at stake during abortion and birth: the unborn baby.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>And, for this unborn baby, the math is quite different.<\/p>\n<p><span>In 2020, the infant mortality rate in the United States was 5.4 deaths per 1,000 live births, according to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/reproductivehealth\/maternalinfanthealth\/infantmortality.htm#:~:text=About%20Infant%20Mortality,-Infant%20mortality%20is&#038;text=In%202020%2C%20the%20infant%20mortality,deaths%20per%201%2C000%20live%20births.\" rel=\"\">CDC<\/a><span>, meaning that unborn babies had a 0.54% chance of death during birth in 2020. Generally, this means that in 99.46% of cases, a healthy unborn baby will survive birth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>But if an unborn baby is staring down the (suction) barrel of an abortion, what are their odds of survival? Almost 0%.<\/p>\n<p><span>Birth is almost infinitely safer for <\/span><em>babies<\/em><span> than abortion, while abortion is just 60 times \u201csafer\u201d for the mother than giving birth.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Turns out the Women\u2019s March aren\u2019t very good at math. Just saying.<\/p>\n<p><em><span>Follow Ian Haworth on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/ighaworth\" rel=\"\">Twitter<\/a><span>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"subscription-widget-wrap\">\n<div class=\"subscription-widget show-subscribe\">\n<div class=\"preamble\">\n<p>This is a reader-supported publication. 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