Protesters from the Amnesty International organisation staged a so-called “die in” in London today to highlight the number of women who die in childbirth around the world.

A spokeswoman said: “Global figures show that approximately one woman dies every minute because of preventable causes related to pregnancy.”

The protest might be admirable but for the fact that Amnesty, once to the forefront of the campaign for universal human rights, recently became a pro-abortion organisation. With the backing of the well-financed pro-abortion lobby it may be easier for Amnesty to agitate for abortion rather than the more difficult campaigns they once prided themselves on. (It’s all a far cry from Amnesty’s roots in the 1960s campaigning for prisoners of conscience to be released from prison in Portugal).

Amnesty’s campaign for abortion in-tandem with a campaign against maternal mortality is made even more bizarre by the fact the women are much more likely to die in childbirth in countries where abortion is legal.

In Britain for example, a woman is more than three times likely to die during childbirth that in Ireland. In the Netherlands, meanwhile, a woman is four times more likely to die in childbirth than in Ireland

In fact, Ireland, where abortion is still illegal, is one of the safest countries in the world to be pregnant.

What the pro-abortion lobby won’t tell you, however, is that because Irish obstetricians and gynecologists treat pregnancy as if involves two patients (the mother and the child) Irish women are dramatically safer than their counterparts in countries where abortion is legal.