Witnesses Testify on Abortion Safety in Third Day of Trial on Alabama Admitting Privileges Law

The Montgomery Advertiser: Doctor: Abortion safer than getting shot of penicillin, by Brian Lyman:

A Texas doctor Wednesday said a state law requiring doctors performing abortions to have admitting privileges at local hospitals was medically unnecessary and might end up harming women.

"The risk of death from live childbirth is about 8.8 per 100,000," Dr. Paul Fine, an OB-GYN and medical director of a Planned Parenthood affiliate serving Texas and Louisiana. "The risk of death from abortion is about six per 1 million. The risk of death from childbirth is about 14 times high than that of abortion." . . .