Posted on Jul 25, 2022
Could abortion bans stop miscarriage care? And other claims fact-checked
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Claims over abortion safety
The American Center for Law and Justice, a Christian legal advice centre with 3.7 million Facebook followers, has written a widely-shared post claiming that "abortion is not safe" and calling on the US Supreme Court to reject arguments that it is.
This is a common claim but it's not supported by evidence.
While all medical procedures carry some risk, the US-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says that between 2013 and 2018 there were 0.4 deaths per 100,000 legal abortions in the US.
This compares with 23.8 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2020.
The American Center for Law and Justice, a Christian legal advice centre with 3.7 million Facebook followers, has written a widely-shared post claiming that "abortion is not safe" and calling on the US Supreme Court to reject arguments that it is.
This is a common claim but it's not supported by evidence.
While all medical procedures carry some risk, the US-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says that between 2013 and 2018 there were 0.4 deaths per 100,000 legal abortions in the US.
This compares with 23.8 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2020.
Could abortion bans stop miscarriage care? And other claims fact-checked
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To remove a dead fetus after a miscarriage is still an abortion. And it threatens the mother's life. The dead fetus begins to rot inside the mother. So bans on abortion will stop (or seriously effect) miscarriage care.
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PO2 Russell "Russ" Lincoln
SrA John Monette true for the most part. There have been cases of "stone babies" where the fetus is calcified. They are few and far between.
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Sgt Stephen Chiles
Having assisted many D&C as well as fetal demise fetuses through C-sections while working as a surgical technician, never on the record was it recorded as an "abortion" In fact, all three hospitals that I worked for (over 17 years), all were Christian and abortion was not allowed under any circumstance. Where the demise could threaten the health or life of the mother, removal was allowed and approved.
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LTC David Brown
SrA John Monette - no it isn’t labeled as an abortion. Look up the diagnostic codes for billing. ICD and ACD codes. They don’t list these as abortions. Code for ectopic pregnancy. https://www.icd10data.com/ICD10CM/Codes/O00-O9A/O00-O08/O00-/O00.9 . Miscarriages are very common. A surprising number of pregnancies end in miscarriages, often women think their period is late. 30 years of providing anesthesia I have never seen a removal of a dead fetus or a D&C for post miscarriage treatment labeled as an abortion. Usually it is removal of retained products of conception. A miscarriage isn’t an abortion.
2023 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code O00.9: Ectopic pregnancy, unspecified
ICD 10 code for Ectopic pregnancy, unspecified. Get free rules, notes, crosswalks, synonyms, history for ICD-10 code O00.9.
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Most likely. When I was at SOS in Alabama in the early 70s we had a miscarriage. State officials came to the base hospital to confirm it wasn't actually an abortion, that's what I fear we are going back to.
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
SrA John Monette The pro life crowd says abortions kill, in this case the fetus is already dead.
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LTC David Brown
SrA John Monette - again, miscarriage isn’t an abortion and are very common . Products removed during surgery are sent to pathology for diagnosis, same as during D&C which stands for Dilation and Curettage, not abortion.
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