The article is extremely tendentious, stating opinions as facts. It also clearly avoids the question of whether or not the Supreme Court’s legal reasoning in Roe v. Wade was correct. Even abortion advocates like Ruth Ginsburg conceded that the legal reasoning of Roe was flawed. The Supreme Court had no right to make the ruling that they did and the Roberts court rectified their error.
Oh how much better we would be today if the 1960 election hadn't been stolen from Richard Nixon. That was the first really big steal.
According to Dr Bernard Nathanson, abortionist and founder of NARAL, later anti-abortion activist, there were about 300 maternal deaths per year due to illegal abortion in the late 50s, early 60s, thanks to antibiotics. By 1970 the number was well under a hundred, due in part to legalized abortion in NY and CA.
To see thousands of maternal deaths, go back to 1940.
For 300 deaths, either illegal abortion was not very common, or not very dangerous, compared to childbirth in general back then.
Rough estimate, 100,000 abortions per year in 1960 seems more likely than 1,000,000.
NARAL lied both about the number of women killed by abortion, and the number of abortions performed.
Can someone explain what the connection of Nixon was to the Roe versus Wade decision?
What was Nixon’s position on abortion? This article doesn’t say. We know that the abortion decision of January 1973 came after Nixon’s re-election in 1972. Was the anticipated decision on abortion a campaign issue in 1972?
Nixon won re-election in 1972 with the largest Presidential victory over his opponent ever before, or since.
But anyone claiming “abortion” secured Nixon’s victory limits their analysis to one thing over a very many other valid reasons. McGovern was a peacenik Leftist that won the nomination by a party shaped by the Left after the Dims 1968 convention. The mood of the voters was not cheering the cultural revolution of the “sexual” revolution, the drugs, the hippies, the violent “peace” protestors and the Leftists in charge of student “demonstrations”. Nixon represented the center of the country, by a country mile, compared to McGovern. McGovern could not have won had the Roe decision never been made.
Nixon. The gift that keeps on crapping on the nation. Just like Bush’s TSA.