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New York City, N.Y., Mar 6, 2013 \/ 05:26 pm (CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- \u00a0Medical experts before the United Nations argued that abortion is not medically necessary to promote women\u2019s health and can actually harm women instead.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cReal medical care decreases maternal mortality; abortion does not decrease maternal mortality,\u201d Dr. Donna J. Harrison told CNA on March 6.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\tHarrison, who serves as the director of research and public policy for the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, was on a panel of doctors from around the world who testified before the U.N. Commission for the Status of Women in New York City.<\/p>\n

\tThe doctors challenged assumptions that the expansion of healthcare and women\u2019s rights demands the expansion of abortion. They stressed that pregnancies \u2013 even those considered to be high-risk \u2013 do not necessitate conflict between the needs of the mother and those of the child.<\/p>\n

\tInstead, they explained, innovative solutions treating the whole person and the whole of society lead to increased health for all involved.<\/p>\n

\tDr. Eoghan de Faoite, board member for the Committee on Excellence in Maternal Healthcare in Ireland, criticized the international attacks on Ireland\u2019s ban on abortion.<\/p>\n

\tThe doctor noted that the country has one of the lowest rates of maternal death in the developed world and has not experienced the \u201crise in mortality\u201d seen in other Western countries that have legalized abortion.<\/p>\n

\tHis presentation also cited studies that found no data to suggest that abortion lowers maternal mortality. Based on these reports, the Committee on Excellence in Maternal Healthcare has declared that abortion is not a medically necessary procedure.<\/p>\n

\tDe Faoite clarified that delivering babies before they are able to survive on their own is sometimes necessary to save the life of the mother, but in cases such as these, efforts are made to save the child as well as the mother.<\/p>\n

\tHe also addressed the case of Savita Halappanavar, whose death in Ireland in late 2012 sparked worldwide controversy. The doctor said that she was infected with a highly aggressive form of E.Coli, and that there is \u201cno evidence to date that termination of pregnancy would have saved (her) life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tDr. Elard Koch of the Center of Embryonic Medicine and Maternal Health in Chile presented data showing an increase in maternal deaths after the legalization of abortion in countries around the world. This is caused by the complications that come from abortions, he said, adding that the abolition of abortion in countries such as Chile have coincided with a decline in abortion.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\tKoch\u2019s presentation argued that maternal mortality can be effectively decreased through education, skilled birthing technicians and access to clean and highly staffed birthing facilities rather than abortion.<\/p>\n

\tIn an interview with CNA after the presentations, Dr. Harrison commented on the dangers of pill-induced abortions, which carry a \u201chigher rate of complications after the abortion\u201d and are \u201cmuch more dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tIn addition, these procedures are not necessarily supervised by a physician, but can be administered \u201cwithout examining a woman and without any plans for follow-up,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\tThis is particularly dangerous because what would be a complication in the West \u201cbecomes a death\u201d in the developing world, Harrison explained, pointing to the inability to access immediate emergency care in cases such as severe hemorrhaging and incomplete abortions.<\/p>\n

\tShe noted that the proliferation of these pill-induced medical abortions is partly \u201cbecause it is much easier to spread than surgical abortion\u201d and because it is \u201ccheaper for the abortion provider to give a woman a pill than it is to take care of her surgically or be available for her in case she has a complication.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tNonetheless, it is both \u201cdangerous\u201d and \u201cirresponsible\u201d to promote such abortions in the developing world, Harrison warned, \u201cand it will result in an increase in death and complications in women from abortion.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tShe echoed Koch\u2019s findings, saying that a better way to reduce maternal mortality is through focusing on complications such as hemorrhage, hypertension and infection by providing skilled birth attendants, delivery facilities and adequate prenatal care.<\/p>\n

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