You've probably heard childbirth is ~14x riskier than abortion. That figure is from 2005 data. A new study updates it using 2018–2021 data: the ratio is now between 44 and 70 — at least 3x higher. Why? Better maternal death reporting, and abortion has gotten safer. 👉️
This cross-sectional study found that the ratio of pregnancy- to abortion-related mortality from 2018 to 2021 ranged from 44.3 to 69.6, at least 3 times higher than the ratio of 14.7 calculated using…
