Sorry, my kingdom for an edit button: how many people seeking abortion die from it.
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One historian of abortion argues that abortion stays at pretty much the same rate per capita over time whether it's legal or banned. What changes when you make it illegal is how many women die from it.
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Please please please provide citations for this.
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@JeffreyToobin just cited it on@cnn@DonLemonTonight - Show replies
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And leave behind husbands and children, sisters, brothers, mothers, fathers, aunts and uncles….
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This is why religious leaders were supportive of Roe v Wade to end having to burying young women in their parishes.
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Dirty Dancing writer Bergstein: “When I made the movie in 1987, about 1963, I put in the illegal abortion and everyone said, ‘Why? There was Roe v. Wade ― what are you doing this for?’ I said, ‘Well, I don’t know that we will always have Roe v. Wade.’https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dirty-dancing-writer-on-why-she-integrated-illegal-abortion-into-a-love-story_n_59a81364e4b010ca289ab177 …
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“Worse than that, there were also very young women then who didn’t remember a time before Roe v. Wade, so for them I was like Susan B. Anthony, saying, ‘Oh, just remember, remember, remember.’”
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People no longer have to risk their health if they need an abortion: we now have safe, effective medication abortion pills! The greater risk in self-managing an abortion is legal, which can also be severe.https://reproaction.org/six-things-about-abortion-pills/ …
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For anyone who wants to understand more about what things were like prior to Roe, I highly recommend this book: Beggars and Choosers: How the Politics of Choice Shapes Adoption, Abortion, and Welfare in the United Stateshttps://www.amazon.com/dp/0809028603/ref=cm_sw_r_awdo_8WER6AQBJ2TDVSMZPFJD …
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Or End of the Road by John Barth.
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