The most egregious assault on science represented by Raymond and Grimes, hiding in plain sight, is what they chose not to consider. Their methodology considered only the risk to the woman and not the risk to the unborn child. The death of an unborn child is the explicit purpose of, and the very definition of, induced abortion.
Once the paradigm shifts to a two-life metric (mother and baby), it becomes unquestionably clear that abortion will always be orders of magnitude more deadly than carrying a baby to term. Data on maternal deaths and abortions in the period of 2011–15 show that there were 1,320 abortion deaths for every one maternal death.
What does the Raymond and Grimes ratio look like when we consider both mother and baby? Depending on the assumptions in estimating and accounting for miscarriages and the simple recognition that abortion is a death, abortion could be as much as 4,500 times more likely to result in a human death than giving birth. Perhaps abortion advocates continue to tirelessly propagate a discredited, never-replicated study to distract from the startling carnage that is abortion.
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