I'm curious because we hear about how 'bad' it was with no data. I do know there have been some 40m abortions since then, so, feel feel to put up the numbers.
2006-12-28 07:57:49 · 8 answers · asked by MoltarRocks 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I'm not asking how many illegal abortions were performed. I know that can't be gauged. I'm asking for a count of women who died from having the procedure performed.
2006-12-28 08:02:09 · update #1
Chef - what do abortions and the holocaust have in common? Zilch.
I hope you are not one of those holocaust deniers.
2006-12-28 08:11:58 · update #2
Hundreds of women died from illegal abortions before Roe v. Wade. The population council said that at least 235 deaths from illegal abortions happend in 1965. You can check the link below.
2006-12-28 14:11:00 · answer #1 · answered by cynical 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, since it was illegal, no 'real' numbers can be available. Once you legalize something, you can control it. Now, I just posted some info about countries NOW where abortion is illegal, and how many 'menstrual extractions' are performed each year. But if you want to see what it has done to the US, you can look at the stats of the abortionsper capita in 1973 as opposed to abortions per capita today, and the number is on the decline. So is crime, BTW
EDIT: SINCE aborytions were illegal, it would be impossible to determine that the cause of a woman's death was because of a botched abortion...so many family doctors (the people who rallied for legalized and safe procedures) would protect the memory of the girl by recording an 'infection' or otherwise. So the stigma attached to the legality effectively skewed those real numbers
EDIT: The thing they have in common is recent history..you cannot DENY the holocaust, the same way you cannot DENY deaths by illegal abortion...for the same reason. People are still alive today who witnessed with their own eyes, and exist for us to question.
2006-12-28 08:01:48 · answer #2 · answered by hichefheidi 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
There probably are NONE because abortions were illegal. But there were not the dire dire conditions you hear about.Yes some did die. yes some now die. an operation is always dangerous. But women were not dropping dead like flies from abortions then. Now its babies dropping dead like flies. Go figure. As usual, when a morally questionable issue comes up it is exaggerated. Now the # of abortions is astronomical.
2006-12-28 08:05:16 · answer #3 · answered by swamp elf 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋
why would anybody keep statistics? do you know how many people do crack in this country right now? it's illegal, so there's no way to trace it. abortions prior to roe v. wade were basically the same way.
2006-12-28 08:00:13 · answer #4 · answered by The Frontrunner 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I'm pretty sure it wasn't 40 million women dead from illegal abortions.
2006-12-28 08:01:01 · answer #5 · answered by ? 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I don't know the numbers but I think death, medical necessity, and rape were just excuses. Even today that is a very small percentage of abortions. Abortion is all about convenience. That's it
2006-12-28 08:04:49 · answer #6 · answered by Jasmine 5 · 1⤊ 4⤋
An eye for an eye.
2006-12-28 07:59:41 · answer #7 · answered by BORED AT WORK 5 · 0⤊ 4⤋
Either way death was a fair punishment for murder.
2006-12-28 08:00:18 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 5⤋