The “safe” part of abortions was available before Hippocrates’ time. No longer appearing in the oath physicians take was the Hippocratic “I shall never administer an abortifacient.” The ethical proscription shouldn’t have been necessary if the abortifacients resulted in death for TWO human beings. And the local midwives from his time on generally knew what herbs could induce spontaneous abortion. “Safe,” I’m convinced, is the feminist code-word for irreproachable, free from prosecution, free from blame. When it becomes free from guilt, we’ll all have become completely anesthetized.
That’s the long way to say there is no such thing as a safe abortifacient or abortion procedure but it is true. There is not.