[presidio9]

It may have decriminalized abortion, but it did not make it safe – not for Christin Gilbert nor the thousands of other women who have died from slipshod abortions in the past 33 years,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman.

I would be interested to know how many women have died from abortions since Roe V. Wade versus before hand. In both cases I would include so-called "back alley" abortions (which, obviously, still go on). The main justification for legalized abortion ususally seems to be that it saves the lives of countless women. I bet it doesn't even do that.

[Idisarthur]

Yeah, the CDC doesn't release good statistics and the clinics voluntarily report statistics.

Lime 5

Read it, it's a book.

[grellis]

I would be interested to know how many women have died from abortions since Roe V. Wade versus before hand.

A lot of us would love to have those figures. My understanding is that abortion is almost never listed as the primary cause of death, and seldom listed as the secondary or tertiary (if that's the word I want) cause.

One would think that only a handful of women have died as a result of having an abortion since 1973. I'm not buying.

[IrishRainy]

According to the CDC, the number of women who died from "back alley" abortions prior to Roe v. Wade was 39.

After 1973, the average number of deaths from legal abortions was 22.

We murder about 1.5 million babies per year so that 17 women per year can live.