Television tells us that abortion is dangerous. An alarming 15.6 percent of women who undergo abortion on screen end up dead, according to the research group Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health. Most of those deaths are the result of procedural complications—botched abortions, you could say. In reality, the risk of death from an abortion (regardless of how far along in pregnancy it occurs) is less than 0.01 percent. In the United States, you actually have a higher risk of dying from a lightning strike than you do of dying from an abortion. What about the risk of being harmed if you’re the one providing abortions? Well, the media has it pretty straight on that issue. Anti-choice terrorism is a real threat.
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