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Originally posted by Rudey
Do they have statistics on this? I would like to see what percentage of women could die if a pregnancy goes through.
-Rudey
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I've looked for statistics before and haven't found any. Here's a webpage that outlines the major reasons (aside from potential death of the mother) that D&X abortions are performed:
http://www.religioustolerance.org/abo_pba1.htm#why
Essentially, the whole thing about D&X abortions is that they are almost never performed unless it would be a very bad idea to go through with the pregnancy (and in the rare cases where it is performed for "no good reason," that's against medical regulations in many states). You can't just wake up one day and say, "Oh, whoops, I changed my mind and I don't want to have this baby anymore, guess I'll go have an abortion!" Any doctor who performs this procedures weighs the pros and cons very carefully simply because of its nature.
There is nobody sane in the world who chooses the most violent, goriest procedure available to get rid of a fetus just for the hell of it. Most people out there choose the procedure that will cause the least discomfort for both them and the fetus -- anybody who doesn't is pretty clearly crazy (and in that case, they need to be having an abortion because I don't want any more crazy people having children). And if someone doesn't understand that, I think they're missing out on a fundamental piece of the argument.