The comparative safety of legal induced abortion and childbirth in the United States. - PubMed - NCBI

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/22270271/

CONCLUSION: Legal induced abortion is markedly safer than childbirth. The risk of death associated with childbirth is approximately 14 times higher than that with abortion. Similarly, the overall morbidity associated with childbirth exceeds that with abortion.

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