Western medicine is the fourth leading cause of death in the US.
Source, please.
Big Pharma's pills are killing people left and right and the media is silent.
Source, please.
Some media are pro-choice, some are anti-choice, and some remain neutral.
The media is for abortion regardless of the consequences.
This is patently false.
The media doesn't report news. They are only there to promote propaganda.
This is false by definition.
First of all, you're extremely confused, because you think "the media" is singular. As if there is a single source out there that does only one thing, and answers to only one owner, and has only one purpose. This is simply a misunderstanding of the word "media." "Media" is plural. The singular is "medium." Even under communism, there are multiple media. In China there are dozens, and that's one of the most controlling governments on the planet.
There are several media that report news. Some of them are more biased than others.
I will bet you $50 US that your primary source of news is more biased than my primary source of news.
Then there must have been more abortions being performed prior to legalization. We know that's not the case at all.
(1) I was talking about the RATE of death, not the actual number, though I wouldn't be surprised if the actual number went down as well.
(2) It is not true that there would necessarily be fewer deaths just because there would be fewer abortions. For example, Let's take a hypothetical geographical area where abortion was illegal in year A, and say there were 100 abortions performed. 13 of them resulted in the death of the mother, because of unsafe conditions (This is roughly the rate of death from complications from abortion in countries where it is still illegal, according to
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/preventing-unsafe-abortion.) Now let's say in Year A+1, that area made abortion legal, and there are 10x as many abortions: 1,000. Because of safer conditions, only 1 woman died. (That would be more than 10x the typical rate in that situation, according to
https://idph.iowa.gov/Portals/1/userfiles/142/Pregnancy Mortality.pdf.) More abortions, fewer deaths. Simple math shows that you are wrong.
(3) It is not necessarily true that there were fewer abortions before legalization than after. I wouldn't be surprised if that were the case, but I also wouldn't say it is absolutely the case. In some cases, abortions increase when restrictions are placed. Abortions increase when financial hardships increase, and decrease when financial hardships decrease. If abortion were made illegal at the same time as other factors (say, hypothetically, some horrific pandemic) that caused massive unemployment, abortions would increase regardless of their legality. Likewise, if abortions were made legal, and all of a sudden something happened that caused an amazing financial boon (such as the end of a costly global war or something), abortions would decrease. People don't care about whether something is legal or not when they're starving.
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