Nice argument, but some of us are old enough and lived when abortions were illegal in America.
If you had the money, you sent the girl to Canada.
Nice argument, but some of us are old enough and lived when abortions were illegal in America. That's not the point, the fallacy that illegal abortion causing an inordinate amount of deaths was the main reasoning for abortion on demand as FEDERAL LAW is crap. It’s a state’s rights issue and if all the state’s banned it then Canada is fine.
The National Center for Heath Statistics reveals that before 1941, there were over 1,400 abortion-related deaths. Yet after Penicillin became available to control infections, the number of deaths was reduced in the 1950's to approximately 250 per year. By 1966, with abortion still illegal in all states, the number of deaths had dropped steadily to 120. The reason? New and better antibiotics, better surgery and the establishment of intensive care units in hospitals. This was in the face of a rising population.
Between 1967 and 1970 sixteen states legalized abortion. In most it was limited, only for rape, incest and severe fetal handicaps or deformities, and when the pregnancy jeopardized the life of the mother (all of which constitute only 5% of the abortion cases today). There were two notable exceptions - California in 1967 and New York in 1970 legalized abortion on demand.