#48: Refuting "Abortion as Self-Defense"
from Equipped for Life Podcast Hosted by Equal Rights Institute
This audio comes from a training video available on the Equal Rights Institute YouTube channel. Sources: Sophie Lewis Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=jMGptJXz618&feature=emb_logo Maternal mortality rates in the United States in 2016 according to the CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealth/maternal-mortality/pregnancy-mortality-surveillance-system.htm#ratio Appendectomy Statistics: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27535664?fbclid=IwAR0_4Mj8SomiMwLXi-j9c-fUGguNtwLaxfhf3BGgfiEmWdTp_1dMh9d7REY Ghana maternal mortality rate: https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/GHA/ghana/maternal-mortality-rate#:~:text=Ghana%20maternal%20mortality%20rate%20for,a%201.54%25%20decline%20from%202014. New York Times article "Pregnancy Kills. Abortion Saves Lives.": https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/21/opinion/alabama-law-abortion.html Maternal morbidity data from the CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealth/maternalinfanthealth/severematernalmorbidity.html Live births for 2014 according to CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr64/nvsr64_06.pdf The Comparative Safety of Legal Induced Abortion and Childbirth in the United States (Raymond and Grimes study): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22270271 Is Abortion 14 Times Safer Than Childbirth?: https://blog.equalrightsinstitute.com/is-abortion-14-times-safer-than-childbirth/ Reasons U.S. Women Have Abortions: Quantitative and Qualitative Perspectives: https://www.guttmacher.org/journals/psrh/2005/reasons-us-women-have-abortions-quantitative-and-qualitative-perspectives
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