In 2017 newspaper headlines across the world declared that Iceland had fully eradicated Downs Syndrome.

On first glance, such a headline might make one think that there had been some amazing medical breakthrough.

In truth, the story was actually about the near 100% success rate of Iceland in aborting all babies in utero who were diagnosed with Downs Syndrome.

Hardly a medical triumph.

Whenever it comes to abortion, this is the topsy turvy world we live in where killing babies in utero is celebrated as a medical success rather than the horror that it is.

And right now, across Australia, we have codified abortion as ‘healthcare’ in all of our states  even though there is nothing remotely healthy nor caring about abortion for unborn babies. 

The same can also be said for women, but for reasons to follow, many of them are none the wiser.

Which begs the question, how has abortion become healthcare?  

There is one strategy that has been used, which I think, has contributed more than any other, in successfully advancing the abortion agenda to have reached this elevated status.

This one strategy has ensured that abortion zealots have been able to build and drive the narrative on abortion for the last six decades, and counting, with very little pushback.

That strategy has been to ensure that there are no legislative requirements for the collection and analysis of critical abortion data.

Having no significant data, publicly accessible, following the whole process of abortion, from beginning to the end (which can be many decades long) has meant that abortion zealots have not only been able to make up complete and utter fairytales to advance their agenda; they have also been able to bat away and label the concerns, problems and issues raised as simply scaremongering or anti-abortion propaganda.

Here are some common examples we see in the public discourse:

• ‘no woman makes a termination decision lightly’
• ‘late term abortions only happen for the most extreme of reasons, like when a woman’s life is in danger’
• ‘there are no babies born alive, that is anti-abortion propaganda’
• ‘there are no health risks to abortion- in fact it is safer than childbirth’
• ‘abortion empowers women’

These things and so many more are 100% non-verifiable.

Without data, these statements really are nothing more than assertions with no greater status than fairytales and yet they continue to be put forth as if they are facts when new laws are being drafted to expand abortion even further.

Any suggestion to collect data, is always wholly and loudly rejected by people in our parliaments who are zealots for abortion.

Put simply, abortion has become healthcare in our laws, not because data and analysis have proven beyond doubt that it is so, but rather, it has become so on the basis of an absence of data being collected proving otherwise.

The whole abortion healthcare narrative is being propped up by a flimsy house of cards.

There is no data around why women have abortions, how many they have, or how many of them are pressured or in other ways coerced, or how many use it as their main form of contraception.

There’s no data around how many women regret their abortions or develop severe depression, PTSD, or even commit suicide following abortion.

There’s no data around how many women become infertile following abortions and no data analysis to see if there is indeed an abortion- breast cancer link as has been shown in many peer reviewed studies (a very unwelcome truth that our cancer authorities continue to deny).

Where there is data about the harms of abortion to women, such as the recent study by the Ethics and Public Policy Centre in Washington DC which found one in 10 women suffer a adverse event after taking the abortion pill, there’s no serious engagement with it.

We know that these things happen, but without data, we are fighting with our hands tied and mouths smothered.

Are women 5%, 10% or 20% likely of becoming infertile following an abortion?

Does this risk increase with further abortions?

Is it conscionable to say there is no risk of infertility at all when we haven’t collected the data on it for so many decades?

Or what of all the other risks and problems associated with abortion?

Women deserve to know the weak foundation on which ‘abortion is healthcare’ is based.

A greater medical scandal than this one is hard to fathom.

It is time to start calling out the flimsy assertions which underpin abortion whenever we hear them and flicking down the cards one at a time.

The sooner this house of cards falls, the sooner the myth that abortion is healthcare comes tumbling down with it.

And that day cannot come soon enough.

Let us know in the comments the obnoxious abortion fairytales you have heard and the data we need to stop them.