Because of the above factors we can start by dismissing out of hand the abortion industrys often repeated claim that abortion is seven times safer than childbirth. This is pure nonsense and has no basis in fact. Looking at the above, one is tempted to comment that the comparison of abortion deaths to childbirth deaths is not only comparing apples with oranges, but has so many qualifying factors and unknowns that any type of reasonably accurate comparison is all but impossible.
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