Is pregnancy more dangerous than abortion for the woman?

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street with the Point.

One of the most sensational claims of abortion advocates is that pregnancy is more dangerous than legalized abortion.

The argument is based on a 2012 study by Elizabeth Raymond and David Grimes.

However, as James Studnicki and Tessa Longbonds recently described in the National Review, the claim is demonstrably false.

By their own admission, Raymond and Grimes underreported maternal deaths associated with abortion,

while deaths involving pregnancy and childbirth are subject to national data collection in the U.S.,

no consistent metric exists for reporting deaths related to abortion. In other words,

the data sets that Raymond

and Grimes used to compare were really apples and oranges and should have rendered the paper's

conclusions invalid. In fact, other studies reached the opposite conclusion. In Finland, for example,

researchers found that mortality after abortion is three times higher than childbirth. Much

of the so-called conventional wisdom on abortion is invalid.

It treats pregnancy like a disease, unborn children as a pathogen, and abortion as a cure,

none of which could be further from the truth.

At the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street with a point.