Why eki should do more fact checking in future posts.
Originally Posted by
eki27
Kirito has a point, but i dont think mothers would risk their lives(when youre pregant you have a 50:50 chance to live) for an 'accidental' baby and just give it to an adoption center.
Erm... no. Not in places where abortions are safe or where the government would have the authority to stop abortions happening.
Originally Posted by HuffingtonPost.com
there are 18.5 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births in the U.S.
(HuffingtonPost.com) Admittedly this is only for live births. But I can't see still births having a mortality rate of 99,981.5/100000 so the average would still be well below 1/2.
Originally Posted by eki27
When the baby is still a fetus
Originally Posted by Google's definition of fetus
fe·tus
ˈfēdəs/
noun
noun: foetus
an unborn offspring of a mammal, in particular an unborn human baby more than eight weeks after conception.
Originally Posted by Google's definition of baby
ba·by
ˈbābē
noun
1.
a very young child, especially one newly or recently born.
"his wife's just had a baby"
Oh look, the definitions for those two things you described as being potentially overlapping at times do not overlap at all at any time.
And who cares if a foetus is alive? Sperm is already alive. Our planet is covered in life. Living matter is everywhere. Being alive means so little. It is how advanced the life-form is which matters.
edit:I just checked the value for developing countries. It is about 230/100000. Some countries have maternal mortality rates of about 1000/100000 but this is considered extremely high.
Source:(World Health Organisation)
Last edited by Zelda; Aug 1, 2015 at 01:48 PM.
Reason: More stats