NewTime wrote:
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...giving that ANY pregnancy can be life-treatening because pregnancy is inherently a risky biological event, I wonder where we are suppose to draw the line? Any OB-Gyn will tell you you can't actually know when a woman "might die" from a pregancy until she actually has died, and then,whoops, it's a little too late your crusading moralizing! What a pickle!
Is it true that you can't actually know when a woman might die from a pregnancy until she has actually died?
Uuuuhhh, NO. Pregnancy itself is not inherently risky or life-threatening. The female body is exceptionally well designed to be able to create, grow and sustain a new life inside her. There can be complications of course, and often these can be foreseen with competent medical care, but not always. Sometimes unexpected and unforeseen things can happen, this is true, but the above quote is a HUGE overstatement of the risk of PREGNANCY.
Giving birth IS much more risky than the pregnancy itself, which is why there have historically been much higher rates of deaths while giving birth, but those risks are ALMOST entirely mitigated by competent medical care nowadays. The rate of infant or mother fatalities now hovers around 1 to 2% in the developed world.
22 Oct 2016, 3:32 pm
