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World Abortion Estimates: An Audit Part VI: False Notions About So-Called "Safe Abortions".

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Editor's note: In earlier parts of this series we have seen how estimators with agendas have grossly inflated the number of so-called "unsafe abortions" in the world and then tried to use those numbers to push pro-life countries to legalize abortion under the guise of "saving women's lives." That these campaigns are based on phantom numbers is bad enough. Worse yet is the promotion of the false and dangerous concept that legalizing abortion makes it "safe" and thus would reduce maternal mortality in the developing countries.

No abortion is ever completely safe. Women suffer serious physical, emotional, and psychological damage and even death from so-called ...

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