Doctors all across the world confirm they can save pregnant mothers’ lives without legalizing abortions.
Killing is not part of medical care, and most doctors recognize that unborn babies and mothers are both valuable patients.
In an interview with The Federalist, Dr. Anthony Levatino said aborting unborn babies is not “medically necessary.” Although abortion activists frequently claim it, “nothing could be further from the truth,” the OB-GYN said.
Levatino, a former abortionist, said he “saved hundreds of women from life-threatening pregnancies” while working at one of the foremost high-risk obstetrics hospitals in the U.S., but he never needed to kill an unborn baby.
Instead, doctors perform early inductions and cesarean sections to save pregnant mothers suffering life-threatening complications, he explained. In these cases, the babies sometimes die because they are too premature, but the purpose of the care is to save lives and, without acting, both mother and unborn baby would die.
Studies and statistics also confirm abortions are used to kill unborn babies for elective reasons, not to save mothers’ lives.
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A recent study by the Charlotte Lozier Institute found 96 percent of abortions are for elective and unspecified reasons. According to the study of state abortion statistics, 2.5 percent of abortions were for the mother’s physical health, 1.3 percent for fetal abnormalities, .3 percent for rape/incest and .2 percent for complications that risked the mother’s life or a major bodily function; the rest were elective.
The Federalist referred to another study from 2013 that found 12 percent of women cited “health-related reasons” for their abortion — although their “’reasons’ … could be anything from back pain to mental health concerns — many times a far cry from ‘medically necessary.’”
Doctors from other countries say legalizing abortion is not necessary for medical care either.
More than 1,000 signed the Ireland-based Dublin Declaration in 2018, which states: “As experienced practitioners and researchers in obstetrics and gynaecology, we affirm that direct abortion — the purposeful destruction of the unborn child — is not medically necessary to save the life of a woman.”
Last year, Malta doctors also strongly opposed an effort to legalize abortion in their country, refuting false claims that their abortion ban was putting lives at risk.
The Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, which represents more than 30,000 doctors in the U.S., issued a similar statement in a brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in 2021.
“As physicians and other healthcare professionals, we know that when we care for pregnant women, we are caring for two distinct patients,” the alliance said.
Abortions are not health care; more than 90 percent of OB-GYNs do not even do them, the alliance continued.
“It is time for those of us in the medical profession to boldly defend the lives of all of our patients and demand that our preborn patients be protected and our pregnant patients be empowered instead of lied to,” the alliance said.
Since the overturning of Roe in 2022, 15 states now protect unborn babies by banning or strictly limiting abortions, and others are fighting in court to do the same. No women have died as a result of these laws, but studies indicate tens of thousands of babies likely have been saved.
