Every time we try to talk about the rights of the unborn, the Left throws up the “wah wah you don’t care about the mother’s life” argument.
Wrong. We would care … if it were an issue. The thing is … it’s not.
First of all, such procedures are surpassingly rare.
- Between 1967 and 1990, only 151 abortions were carried out allegedly to “save the mother’s life.” This amounted to 0.004% of all abortions.
Secondly, even these few may have been done for spurious reasons.Ā In 1992, a group of Ireland’s top gynecologists wrote:
“We affirm that there are no medical circumstances justifying direct abortion, that is, no circumstances in which the life of a mother may only be saved by directly terminating the life of her unborn child.”
There is firm data to support their position.
- Irish law protects the unborn child as a person under the law, not as property like a car or a dog or a slave that can be legally disposed of as the owner chooses.Ā Ireland has the lowest maternal death rate in the world.
- Between 1970 and 1979, 21 pregnant women died at Ireland’s busiest maternity hospital. An examination of their medical records shows that not a single one of those deaths could have been avoided by abortion.
One should understand that treatment to save the life of the mother that results in the death of the child as an expected but not intended side effect is not a direct abortion.
The simplest example of this is the removal of an ectopic pregnancy. In this situation, the baby begins to develop in the woman’s fallopian tube and has to be removed or the tube will rupture and cause the death of the woman.
The ethical distinction in the removal of an ectopic pregnancy is that the aim of the operation is to save the mother. In direct abortion, the aim of the operation is to kill the baby.
Sources:
polination.blog 
This is very true.
There are times when a mother’s life might be considered to be in danger. The best example that I can give is that of a woman with diabetes who develops eclampsia. This is a medical emergency.
The point I want to make here is that an abortion is still unnecessary because babies can survive outside of the womb after about 27 weeks. If a mother is dangerously ill because of eclampsia then she needs medical intervention including a stay in hospital until she stabilizes.
For the record, my son’s partner who has diabetes 1 was in danger during her last pregnancy. She was close to getting eclampsia and she had a short stay in hospital. There was no talk of having an abortion. Instead she was stabilized and her blood pressure went down. We looked after our grand-daughter :), watched as she began to walk by herself etc. The care continued until about 38 weeks when she was delivered by caesarian section of her 2nd daughter.
This is certainly a case where things could have gone very wrong, but it didn’t because of the high standard of care. Abortion was unnecessary.
It always amazes me that there are doctors who claim that a woman who is advanced in her pregnancy must have an abortion because of medical emergency. The truth is that bringing on the birth of the child is the better alternative. There is no need to have late term abortion.
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It’s particularly insane when you realize that late term abortion IS child birth. It’s just child birth either following or in conjunction with child murder. I also had a very stressful pregnancy. My perinatologist (specialist in high risk pregnancy) said he HOPED we could get the baby to 28 weeks before she had to be delivered, but if not, they would do intrauterine treatments to try to keep her inside as long as possible. As it turned out, God blessed us with a miracle. Even my not-prayerful doctor shrugged and said, “You can call this a miracle if you want. I cannot explain it.” Our daughter went full term and, although she had been serious ill during the pregnancy, she was healthy at birth! Yet, the ONLY TREATMENT known for Rh disease is birth. So somehow, she recovered from an untreatable, incurable illness WHILE in utero.
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Don’t know anything you could call that, other than a miracle. š
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