Making Pregnancy Safer

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : But is abortion really safer than pregnancy?
46% : For example, the Guttmacher Institute often reports significantly higher numbers of abortion than the CDC, even though their data is also based on voluntary reporting.
45% : During a panel discussion hosted by the New York Times, Laura MacIsaac, an obstetrician-gynecologist at Mount Saini Hospital, claimed that "maternal mortality without the availably of abortion will absolutely go up.
44% : Because of this, determining the relative safety of abortion is nearly impossible.
43% : And it is this third type of abortion that new laws are intended to restrict.
43% : This alone should caution us against making sweeping claims about the relative safety of abortion.
42% : On the other hand, a vocal minority of "abortion abolitionists," such as Scott Herndon, a Republican candidate for the Idaho senate, support the elimination of all exceptions to abortion bans, even those that would save the life of the mother, as well as the criminal prosecution of women who procure abortions.
42% : The fact remains, however, that the current statistical parameters make it almost impossible to offer definitive comparisons between the safety of pregnancy and the safety of abortion.
41% : Only twenty-seven states and the District of Columbia require the reporting of complications from abortion.
37% : The United States lacks universal mandatory reporting for abortions and also for medical complications and deaths related to abortion.
31% : This means that we do not have a reliable measure of abortion-related complications, and, without that, there can be no useful comparison between the risks of abortion and those of pregnancy.
25% : If the standards for reporting abortion itself are uneven, the standards for reporting on the health risks of abortion are downright abysmal.

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