Herren Reardon unt Nye, co-inventors and propagators of PASS, in their recent communique make the claim that "abortion is four times deadlier than childbirth". This claim is based on the following study:

Stakes, (the National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health), Helsinki, Finland.

BACKGROUND: Our aim was to study the impact of record linkage and different classification principles on maternal mortality rate. METHODS: The death certificates of all fertile-aged women who died in 1987-94 in Finland (n = 9,192) were linked to the Birth, Abortion, and Hospital Discharge Registers (n = 513,472 births, 93,807 induced abortions, and 71,701 other ended pregnancies) to identify the women who had been pregnant during their last year of life. All deaths that occurred up to 1 year after the end of pregnancy were classified according to their connection to pregnancy. RESULTS: In total, 281 qualifying deaths were found. Only in 22% of the death certificates was the pregnancy or its end mentioned. The mortality rate was 41 per 100,000 registered ended pregnancies (27 for births, 48 for miscarriages or ectopic pregnancies, and 101 for abortions). The maternal mortality rate depended greatly on which of these 281 cases were defined as maternal deaths. The early maternal mortality rate varied between 5.6 and 6.8 per 100,000 live births, and the late maternal mortality rate between 0.6 and 2.5 depending on the definition used. The classification of other than direct maternal deaths was ambiguous, especially in case of late cancers, cardio- and cerebrovascular diseases, and early suicides. The official Finnish figure for early maternal mortality (6.0/100,000 live births) seems to be a good estimate, although only 65% of individual deaths were unambiguously classified. CONCLUSIONS: Register linkage is necessary to identify late maternal deaths and pregnancy-associated deaths. The current official classification of maternal deaths as indirect, direct and fortuitous is arbitrary and allows much variation in defining a maternal death.

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PMID: 9292639, UI: 97436666

It bears repeating:

.....although only 65% of individual deaths were unambiguously classified. CONCLUSIONS: Register linkage is necessary to identify late maternal deaths and pregnancy-associated deaths. The current official classification of maternal deaths as indirect, direct and fortuitous is arbitrary and allows much variation in defining a maternal death.
 

Note the language in the presentation. It's the same mealy mouth doublespeak that Ney has been running past the foolish and gullible devotees for years.

In many cases, the attempted or completed suicides have been intentionally or subconsciously timed to coincide with the anniversary date of the abortion or the expected due date of the aborted child.(8)

Unsubstantiated mind reading here.

and

Other studies also suggest that the risk of suicide after an abortion may be higher for women with a prior history of psychological disturbances or suicidal tendencies it is quite likely that once again reinforces the conclusion that women who abort are more likely to engage in risk-taking behavior
(which is a conclusion based on no facts)

But this is more of the same - they got pregnant by engaging in sexual activity - which to the ministry of Propaganda is a risk taking behavior.

The STAKES data would appear to support the view that induced abortion produces an unnatural physical and psychological stress

That's what statistical tools were developed for - to show that there is or is not a correlation. I'm not talking of the "Lying With Statistics" tools where bar graphs are carefully used to misrepresent miniscule differences in actual raw data.

From this data, Dr. Philip Ney, who led the research team, concluded that acute or pathological grief after the loss of an unborn child, whether by miscarriage or abortion, has a detrimental effect on the psychological and physical health of some women.

He gained this intuitively by reading the study of death certificates that were ambiguously classified in 35% of the cases.

Clearly, the odds of a woman dying within a year of having an abortion are significantly higher than for women who carry to term or have a natural miscarriage.

This is far from clear and the type of speculative analysis applied by Ney and Reardon would cause a failing grade on a freshman statistics course. They even admit their major flaw is using speculation, in the conclusion of this fake study, when they say:

Unfortunately, there is often no clear way of determining when there is any causal connection between a death and a previous pregnancy, birth, miscarriage, or abortion.

And of course this is the whole basis of this garbage study. They know the causal relationship is not supplied so they decided to supply it themselves - and they decided without proper analysis and purely speculatively - that abortion was the cause.

There were in excess of 148 studies available on Medscape   when this "study" was released. Reardon and his partner in crime Ney searched carefully before they found the one they decided to misrepresent. In their case there is no doubt that the Ph D definitely stands for "Piled Higher and Deeper"

There is no statistical analysis here - merely speculation. The only conclusion available from this fake analysis of a study is that Reardon and Ney will lie to promote their cause - but we didn't need this study to find that out.