 A recent study of pregnancy-associated deaths has discovered that the death level associated with abortion is higher in 2.95 times than that associated with childbirth. The study contained the total population of women from 15 to 49 years of age in Finland between 1987 and 2000. The scientists compared birth and abortion records to death certificates.
The twelve-monthly death rate of women who performed abortion in the preceding year was also 46% higher than that of non-pregnant women. Women who had delivery had a considerably lower death rate than non-pregnant women. Non-pregnant women had 57.0 deaths per 100,000, compared to 28.2 for women who delivered, 51.9 for women who miscarried, and 83.1 for women who had abortions. The scientists made conclusions that pregnancy contributes to a healthy effect on women.
The scientists also discovered the controversies drawn in identifying straight and circuitous effects of pregnancy on following deaths. An exam of deaths from natural factors that were denoted as “not pregnancy related” showed that women who had abortions were considerably more likely to die from natural causes that were not attributed to pregnancy on the death certificates. They also had in 6.3 times more chances to die from violent factors.
This study shows that the death rates following abortion are considerably higher than those associated with delivery. The other study connected death records to Medi-Cal payments for births and abortions for about 173,000 low income Californian women. In that study, the scientists found that women who performed abortions had in two times more chances to die in the next two years and that the increased death rate of aborting women continued over at least eight years.
An unpredicted result in both the Finnish and the American studies was an increased risk of death from cardiovascular diseases. This result was most striking in the American study which examined longer term effects. It found that compared to women who delivered, those who had abortions were considerably almost three times more likely to die of circulatory disease and five times more likely to die from cerebrovascular disease during the succeeding eight year period. Scientists consider that higher levels of depression and nervousness subsequent abortion may make clear this result.
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