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Difficulties in Reporting Maternal Deaths From Legal Abortion II
3. The hidden travel identification. About a third of women having abortions traveled to another state to have this procedure. If upon returning home died as a result of abortion, it is very difficult to find out where they performed the abortion as the reason for his trip was to remain anonymous. In such cases, the state where the woman lived not report the abortion. Dr. Matthew Bulfi describes the case of a woman whose husband found her dead in the bathroom because he was bleeding a legal abortion was performed in another state using data ficticios21.
4. Poverty and ignorance. A large percentage of women who die from legal abortion are poor and / or belong to minorities. Your family or friends know the law, fear or distrust the legal system and therefore it did not report these cases or when they do, they are not taken into account. On December 19, 1995, Carolina Gutierrez underwent a legal abortion clinic Maber Medical Center in Miami, Florida. Soon after, the young Nicaraguan 21 years called the clinic to report that he was suffering intense pain, but even heeded him. Two days later he lay in a coma at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, with a perforated uterus. Doctors amputated both his legs to try to save his life, but the February 5, 1996 Carolina died, leaving behind two orphans and a disconsolate widower, who wanted his wife to abort or knew that he planned to do so. However, the State of Florida authorized the clinic to renew your license to expire in June 199 622.
5. Lack of research. Nobody has been able to make a full inquiry into the cases of medical negligence in the practice of legal abortions, and that ways of reporting these cases vary from state to state. For example, the courts of the State of New York do not have files lawsuits against those who perform abortions. Therefore, physicians who perform abortions are protected from research into their pre-litigation files. Many counties (areas that divide the states), no data kept on file of people who die from medical malpractice.
Difficulties in Reporting Maternal Deaths From Legal Abortion
The average annual maternal deaths from legal abortion in the above table is between 50 and 100, which coincides with the average annual maternal deaths from illegal abortion in the United States, said anteriormente16. However, it is likely that the true number of maternal deaths a year by legal abortion is even higher than between 50 and 100. The problem is that after the legalization of abortion in the United States, the following difficulties have arisen for reporting maternal deaths from legal abortion:
1. The report of maternal deaths is voluntary. In the U.S. there is no legal requirement for doctors who perform abortions to report maternal deaths caused by abortions. Obviously, these doctors will try to avoid having to report these deaths. So said Dr. W. Gates, who performed abortions: “It’s like surrender to the Bureau of Internal Revenue Service for an audit. What is gained by that? There is a tendency not to report them, because it brings negative incentives.” 17
2. Most deaths occur after women have left the abortion mill. The Manual of public health service of the U.S. to report induced terminations of pregnancy indicates that “no complications at the time that the report does, select ‘no’.” 18 This gives way to handling the death certificate. For example, in 1989, Erica Richardson and Debra Gray, both the State of Maryland, died from abortions legales19. However, the Health Department said state reported no maternal deaths by legal abortion that year. The autopsy report of Richardson is very revealing: the cause of his injury was categorized as “therapeutic misfortune” and his death as “accidental.” 20
Resources and Aid
The resources allocated by multilateral aid and, above all, bilateral reproductive health are the ones that have increased since 1990. The measures for the improvement of maternal receive 40% of total health aid.
Most of these resources have been devoted to reproductive health care and family planning, but above all to combat sexually transmitted diseases, especially HIV / AIDS, which has meant that the other health areas has just had an increase in their funds.
Therefore, from several international bodies, aims to provide a comprehensive manner the essential services of reproductive health and HIV / AIDS to achieve greater efficiency, while saving costs.
Maternal Health In the World Today
Despite the global reduction, a woman dies every minute in the world’s poorest countries as a result of complications during pregnancy or childbirth (half a million women a year).
Alongside them there are ten million more who suffer injuries, infections and other complications associated with pregnancy.
The United Nations reports indicate that sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia account for 85% of maternal deaths worldwide.
For all developing countries, there are 450 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births, compared with 14 occurring in developed countries.
Health interventions in childbirth or during pregnancy have also increased in all regions, showing that they can reduce maternal mortality, but but its availability has to be larger in order to reach the target for 2015.
Smoking During Pregnancy Harms the Grandchildren
That smoking during pregnancy can harm the fetus at this point is something already obvious, given by all. However, a study by the Environmental Health Unit in collaboration with The Arrixaca La Fe de Valencia goes further: the nicotine in snuff could have bad consequences for two generations.
Why? In girls, the ova are formed while in the womb. These eggs are affected by snuff, so that increases cancer risk not only in the fetus, but the children that this person has in the future.
The study is not new (‘The Truth’ and he reported in 2008) but has now achieved new impact through publication in a prestigious scientific journal: the Journal of Pediatrics and Child Health. ”
Between 2001 and 2005 doctors evaluated 128 children born with cancer. In 65% of cases, the father, mother or both were smokers.
The pediatrician Juan Antonio Ortega, La Arrixaca, has directed this ambitious study, funded by the Spanish Association Against Cancer (AECC), and the physicians who participated La Fe (Valencia), Madrid’s Hospital and Mount Sinai New York.
The researchers conclude that the relationship between snuff and childhood cancer is much closer than previously thought, warning that the consequences go beyond the fetus, leading to the next generation, which can be inherited cancer markers.
“Exposure to snuff can make the egg” of the fetus, which in future will lead to the grandson, said Dr. Juan Antonio Ortega. Carcinogens of snuff may also affect sperm, say the authors of this study conducted from La Arrixaca.
Abortion and Health of Pregnant Women
Many of the voices calling for the life of an unborn seem to ignore the risk to life and health that every pregnancy carries with women. In our country, maternal mortality has not declined in 30 years. 30% of deaths are from clandestine abortions. The other 70% is delivered in multiple diseases and birth of the third quarter mainly affecting healthy women who began the pregnancy, preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, postpartum hemorrhage.
Each woman risks her life and health with each pregnancy, the desire to bring another life into the world. Nobody should be forced to hazard their lives to bring another to the world. Those who raise their voices saying that giving a child for adoption, do not know if arriegrÃan their lives so easily. We see defenderese with all legal means diponsibles when sentenced to prison for pedophilia, for example .. and just about lose my freedom!
Consumption of Caffeine in Pregnancy
Researchers at Kaiser Permanente Foundation, have indicated that women who consume 200 milligrams or more of caffeine during pregnancy (ie, the equivalent of two cups of coffee), double the risk of abortion. The authors of the study, published in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, reached this conclusion after studying more than one thousand pregnant women who indicated their pattern of consumption of caffeinated beverages: coffee, tea, some soft drinks and hot chocolate.
According to these researchers, caffeine, by itself, increases the chances of having an abortion. This is because the drug rapidly crosses the placenta into the fetus, whose metabolic system is not fully developed.
So the message for pregnant women is clear: “full stop caffeine intake during pregnancy!”