i thought the reason for legal abortions was to get rid of the coat hanger method. apparentally a "legal" abortion is no safer. another point to bring out to those baby-killing nuts.
After 15 weeks, it's much safer to carry the child to term and delivery than to undergo an elective abortion. That's one reason that the people of Texas have decided that all abortions after 15 weeks must be done in ambulatory surgical centers or hospitals. And we don't allow elective abortions after 23 weeks, only those for health reasons (although the definition of "health" is wider than I'd like and includes fetal anomaly.)
All legality did was legalize what the abortionists were already doing --- and many of the back-alley abortionists were the same kind of doctors --- so bad they couldn't ever practice real medicine --- saving lives is an art. It doesn't take much knowledge to cut a baby into pieces to kill it.
A coat hanger can perforate a uterus and a scalpel can do it just as well.