Say What?? Good News: Abortion is Safer than Having Baby…Except for the Baby

Cross posted at http://www.verumserum.com/?p=22019. 

Talk about picking  your words carefully to get the desired result rather than tell the whole truth...

The Telegraph is reporting that the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in the U.K. has drafted a document providing doctors, nurses and counselors with various pieces of guidance and advice to be passed on to women considering an abortion.

According to the Telegraph, the first recommendation on what women need to know is:

“Women should be advised that abortion is generally safer than continuing a pregnancy to term.”

Interesting.  I can only assume this statement is from the woman’s perspective only, seeing as though I am pretty sure that abortion is a lot LESS safe for the baby waiting to be born.

The current advice page on the Royal College site, which appears to have been updated in 2004, also offers this tidbit:

Some studies suggest that women who have had an abortion may be more likely to have psychiatric illness or to self-harm than other women who give birth or are of a similar age. However, there is no evidence that these problems are actually caused by the abortion; they are often a continuation of problems a woman has experienced before.

Isn’t this just a creative use of language to avoid the actual question as to whether abortion has psychiatric/psychological affects on the women.

This is a bit like saying that there is no proof that jumping off a 20 story building kills you since the sudden stop complicates that determination.