Aborted for catastrophic fetal abnormalies.
Another 3 percent of born babies have major birth defects.
Another 1 percent are stillborn. Many of the stillborn had fetal abnormalities.
Those are just the numbers of fetal health issues.
12 percent of the women seeking abortions in 2004 stated were concerned about their health.
Many of those women already had health conditions that were not favorable to pregnancy.
Even seemingly “ normal “ pregnancies can have complications that are caused by the pregnancy.
Any pregnancy can take a turn at a moments notice and put the woman’s health and even her life at risk, at a point where an abortion once the symptoms are there will be too late to prevent a death of the woman or lifelong major irreparable disability.
That’s why no woman should be forced to take the risk if she wants an early elective abortion it should be her choice not to risk the pregnancy. Some women can sence there is something wrong ahead of time.
Life threatening complications aren't rare up to 8 percent of all pregnancies affected by pre- eclampsia or one of it's variants including HELLP syndrome.
We never know when a pregnancy might take a turn and become life threatening to someone we love.
Another 1 to 2.5 percent of pregnancies are ectopic pregnancies which are also life threatening.
So about 1 out 10 pregnancies can be life threatening just from 2 of the many types of life threatening complications.... eclampsia variants and ectopic pregnancies.
My daughter had HELLP syndrome with her pregnancy and she was very close to death when they performed the emergency
C section.
She went to the ER a few weeks before her due date because she was getting a horrible pain in her back just below her ribs which was caused because her liver was being damaged from the HELLP syndrome.
Usually there is pain the upper right part of the abdomen but her pain was in the back because her liver was swelling and shutting down.
They were worried her liver might fail.
Her OB/GYN was shocked when her test results came back showing she had HELLP syndrome. She had just seen him a couple days before and everything with the pregnancy appeared fine then.
My daughter was one the up to 8 percent of women in the US who every year developes 'preeclampsia, eclampsia, or a related condition such as HELLP syndrome."
Thankfully she was not one of the roughly 300 US women who do die from the syndrome every year but she was one of the roughly 75,000 women every year who are counted as near misses.
From the following article:
Beyond Downton Abbey: Preeclampsia Maternal Deaths Continue Today
A little more about HELLP Syndrome:
HELLP Syndrome: Preeclampsia Foundation
Now many women like myself and my daughter continue our pregnancies because we choose to become parents.
But I cannot morally support a law or a country that did not allow elective abortions (before viability ) and thus forced women to continue a pregnancy that may very well put her long term health or life at risk.
On the other side of the coin I could not morally support a law or a country that would force a women to have an abortion against her will even if her unborn were so malformed that if it did survive birth it would cost taxpayers millions of dollars in medical care.
Each woman should have the legal option to choose whether or not she wishes to continue her pregnancy.
