Advances in Prenatal Search and Destroy Techniques Increases Killing Rate
OTTAWA, March 28, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A study published in the current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association links a major increase in late term abortions to a decline in infant mortality.
Lead researcher Dr. Shiliang Liu MB, PhD of the Health Surveillance and Epidemiology Division, Centre for Healthy Human Development, Health Canada found infant mortality dropped from 6.4 and 6.1 per 1000 live births between 1991 and 1995 to 5.5 per 1000 in 1997. The rate of infant death from congenital anomalies also declined 21% after 1995 from 1.86 per 1000 in 1995 to 1.47 per 1000 in 1996 and 1997. Moreover the study reported that “Fetal deaths due to pregnancy termination at 20 to 21 weeks increased by 578% from 3.2 per 100,000 in 1991 to 20.9 per 100,000 fetuses at risk in 1998.”
The researchers said the timing of the abortions suggest they were performed after congenital defects were detected through prenatal diagnosis. “Many of these cases would have ended as late stillbirths or deaths in the first year of life,” Dr. I.D. Rusen, a community medicine specialist at Health Canada, and a co-author of the study told Reuters.
Mary Ellen Douglas of Campaign Life Coalition Canada pointed out: “the child dies in both circumstances; with death due to abnormality it is natural death, but abortion is murder.”
See the Reuters coverage and the abstract from the journal: https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/hsn/20020327/hl_hsn/abortion_cited_for_lower_infant_mortality_in_canada https://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v287n12/abs/joc10704.html