Girls Pregnant Under 16 Twice as Likely to Die by 33

A study in Canada showed girls who are pregnant under 16 years old are in danger if forced, or chooses, to give birth. The death rate of girls under sixteen up to the age of 31 who give birth is twice that of other girls in that age group. This piece of information reinforces what has been said here and elsewhere repeatedly, saving fetus causes some deaths. Saving fetuses is not "prolife," it is choosing who lives and who dies. In the Forced Birth world, the fetus is the one always chosen to live. The woman not.

The study does not attribute all deaths of girls under 16 to complications from pregnancy. Some deaths happen because of socio/economic circumstances caused or contributed to by the pregnancy. These factors contribute to the deaths of women who are older as well. The healthcare and support of women is of no concern to the Forced Birth community. Wait, I forgot, they will pray for all pregnant women.

One of the most common cause of these deaths is injury, both self-inflicted and inflicted by others, such as beatings. The self-inflicted is the high rate of suicide in this demographic.

That inadequate care during pregnancy resulted in deaths is evidence that many of the pregnancies themselves happened because of the social and economic circumstances the girls live in. Our society, and that of Canada, inadequately address poverty, education and health. Low-income people die of many problems caused by poverty, most of which have solutions but not the money to fund the solutions.

There is disagreement about the "best" way to address the medical and education issues in this and in other countries. The problem is one side of the argument is for taxpayer funded solutions and the other for no solutions at all. For the latter voters, the best solution is for poor people, especially poor women, to suffer.

Let's hope the upcoming elections move us, even just a bit, toward solving social problems instead of making them worse.