{"id":44333,"date":"2014-08-12T13:30:27","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T19:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/12\/when-dangerous-abortions-arent.html"},"modified":"2014-11-05T10:24:48","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T17:24:48","slug":"when-dangerous-abortions-arent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/12\/when-dangerous-abortions-arent.html","title":{"rendered":"When dangerous abortions aren't"},"content":{"rendered":"
A lot of states — mostly (if not all) with GOP-led legislatures — have found an effective tactic in shutting down abortion clinics: requiring that they have sophisticated operating suites and that their physicians have admitting rights at local hospitals. The rationale given is that abortion is dangerous, and therefore requires everything and the kitchen sink on standby in case one of those bungling abortionists does something wrong. "It;s all for the safety of the woman," we are told.<\/p>\n

(This is a particularly clever tactic when all the hospitals in an area are either owned\u00a0by religious groups\u00a0that oppose abortion or are public \/ state-college affiliated hospitals which can be prevented from giving admission privileges by those same legislatures.)<\/p>\n

The problem is, the whole idea is built on a lie. Legal abortion is incredibly safe — much safer than many other outpatient procedures that don't get the same concerned scrutiny .\u00a0<\/p>\n

'When it comes to first-trimester abortions, the rate of serious complications \u2014 issues that may land a woman in the hospital \u2014 is less than 0.05 percent. The risk of dying from an abortion is considerably smaller, estimated as occurring in 0.0006 percent of all legal surgical abortions. To put that in perspective, the risk of death associated with childbirth is about 14 times higher.<\/i><\/p>\n

Medically speaking, there are dozens of common medical procedures that are considered to be very safe but that are still riskier than abortion. The mortality rates are higher for gallbladder removal, knee replacement surgery, bariatric surgery, and hernia surgery. There are also non-surgical procedures sometimes performed outside of hospital settings that are more likely to kill people than abortion, but that don\u2019t face the same type of regulation that abortion does. \u201cAs an example, the mortality rate associated with a colonoscopy is more than 40 times greater than that of abortion,\u201d Jeanne Conry, the former president of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the largest group of OB-GYNs in the country, recently explained to Kaiser Health News.'<\/i><\/p>\n

You'd almost think they had another reason in mind when they pass such laws.\ufeff<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Myth of the Dangerous Abortion<\/a>
\n All around the nation, Republican-led legislatures are passing Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers (TRAP) laws that are based largely on the false claim that abortion is a highly risky medica…\n <\/p>\n

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A lot of states — mostly (if not all) with GOP-led legislatures — have found an effective tactic in shutting down abortion clinics: requiring that they have sophisticated operating suites and that their physicians have admitting rights at local hospitals. 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