[Tribune7]

How many people have died from legal abortions since 1973.

[TigersEye]

How many people have died from legal abortions since 1973.

I couldn't find that number. Many are not recorded as deaths due to abortion but rather listed as death due to infection or some other term referring to the complication that occurs.

I will try again to find a statistic on that.

[TigersEye]

Here is an interesting article on why there aren't good statistics about the morbidity rate for abortions.

Here is a CDC (Center for Disease Control) article with numerous tables and charts on abortion. It starts with a single sentence:

Problem/Condition: In 1969, CDC began abortion surveillance to document the number and characteristics of women obtaining legal induced abortions, to monitor unintended pregnancy, and to assist efforts to identify and reduce preventable causes of morbidity and mortality associated with abortions.

But it never gets around to documenting the actual rate of morbidity in currently legal abortions.

Still looking.

[TigersEye]

I can't find a figure. It is interesting that I also cannot find a figure for how many women's lives were saved by having an abortion. Just the vague "risk to maternal health" figure of 2.8%.

The morbidity rate for fetuses undergoing abortion is a solid 100%.