Wa Post: Chris Smith....Abortion does not further children's health

 Chris Smith writes a wonderful op ed piece  in the Washington Post telling it like it is about the hypocrisy of trying to insert abortion as a mean to reduce maternal and child mortality worldwide.

Similarly, unborn children desperately need care to optimize their health before and after birth. Healthy children start in the womb. Abortion is, by definition, infant mortality, and it undermines the achievement of the fourth Millennium Development Goal. There is nothing benign or compassionate about procedures that dismember, poison, induce premature labor or starve a child to death. Indeed, the misleading term "safe abortion" misses the point that no abortion -- legal or illegal -- is safe for the child and that all are fraught with negative health consequences, including emotional and psychological damage, for the mother.