Austria: “Legal abortion” does not mean “safe abortion”

By J.C. von Krempach, J.D. | December 4, 2013

It is a long standing myth, often rehashed by those who want abortion to be legalized under all and any conditions, that thousands of women die as a consequence of “unsafe” abortions each year, and that legalizing abortion would mean that abortions become “safe”, so that legalization would save the lives of many women.

Think twice! Abortion is letal for the child, and dangerous for the mom.

The error in this equation is that “legal” abortions are “safe”.

As the daily newspaper “Der Standard” reports today, the Public Prosecutors’ Office at the Vienna District Court holds a very different opinion.

In 2012, following a decade-long series of complaints relating to at least 16 incidents in which women had suffered severe injuries as a consequence of botched abortions, the public health authorities of the Austrian capital saw themselves obliged to intervene, imposing a ban from further practising her profession on a female abortionist, and closing down her ordination.

In all the cases under investigation, the abortions had been “legal” under Austrian law. But apparently they were not safe.

The Public Prosecutors’ Office has today released a press statement according which it has been decided that a criminal investigation against the clumsy abortionist will be discontinued. The investigation related to a case in which the pregnant woman’s uterus had been perforated.

The decision was accompanied with the explanation that the Public Prosecutors’ Office relied on the opinion of an independent medical expert, according which “injuries such as the perforation of the uterus are a normal risk that is associated with every abortion”. Therefore, the investigation could not lead to a finding of medical malpractice.

Ladies, think twice before you go for a “safe” abortion!

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