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Podcast: Townhall Review | Commentaries
Episode: Carol Liebau: The Post-Dobbs Disinformation Propogandists
Description: As pro-choicers work to discredit the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade, suddenly pregnancy is being portrayed as a fearsome medical condition that jeopardizes women’s lives. Please. Globally, maternal mortality has fallen 43 percent since 1990. In the United States, it fell 99 percent between 1955 and 1985. By 1973, pregnancy so rarely posed a mortal danger that doctors had dropped “life of the mother” as a justification for abortion – a fact noted in the oral arguments that year for Roe v. Wade. In fact, the US maternal mortality ratio in 2019—the last pre-pandemic year available—was a vanishingly small 17.4 out of 100,0...