Political and religious conservatives love to talk about the so-called health risks of abortion. They perpetuate scientifically disproven myths about “post-abortion syndrome” and a nonexistent link between breast cancer and abortion, and pass Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers—or TRAP laws—that, for instance, require clinics to meet the building standards of ambulatory surgical centers.
This despite the fact that, according to the Guttmacher Institute, “a first-trimester abortion is one of the safest medical procedures” you can have. Major complications that could send a woman to the hospital occur at a rate of less than 0.5 percent. Dr. Jeanne Conry, the former president of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists told Kaiser Health News that “the mortality rate associated with a colonoscopy is more than 40 times greater than that of an abortion.
A protestor dresses like a Handmaid at the Stop the Bans rally for abortion rights at the Supreme Court. Why aren’t conservatives talking about the health risks U.S. women really face—the complications from pregnancy and childbirth? Pre- and postnatal depression is well documented: ACOG warns that up to nearly one in four women suffer from perinatal depression. Other risks of pregnancy include anemia, high blood pressure, gestational diabetes, infection and death. Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that each year in the U.S.
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Their peddling manure; frankly, it's bullshit. The only thing conservative's want to protect is their political lives.