The comparative safety of legal induced abortion and childbirth in the United States. – PubMed – NCBI
Obstet Gynecol. 2012 Feb;119(2 Pt 1):215-9. doi: 10.1097/AOG.0b013e31823fe923. Comparative Study
Put your moral aside for a second and think strictly from a medical perspective. The people who… know about this shit… gynecologists and what not know the facts. Gving birth leads to many more complications than an abortion. In fact, for every 100,000 live births in the US, nearly nine women died. Per every 100,000 abortions, 0.6 women died, according to the same study (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22270271). So seriously… whatever moral aguments may be had, the "safety" issue… is a load of bullshit.
Indeed. I think a lot of people forget that giving birth puts women at risk for complications and even death. We've been doing it for thousands of years and it has somehow turned into a "run of the mill" procedure, a easy thing. When in reality women can, and do die giving birth even with a team of medical professionals.