King Phenomenon
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38% too many.I believe that the idea that abortions being legal made them safer is a common misconception.
Fatality rates of "back-alley" abortions dramatically dropped after the introduction of antibiotics in the 1940's and continued to improve.
The term "back-alley" abortion is even misleading since by as early as 1955 - 90% of all illegal abortions were performed by trained physicians.
AJPH.50.7.948 (aphapublications.org)
In 1972 - the year before Roe v. Wade was passed - there were only 63 abortion related fatalities - and 38% of those deaths were the result of legal abortions.
Abortion Surveillance -- United States, 1992 (cdc.gov)
Basically - it was not Roe v. Wade that made abortions safer - but the development of better medicine.
Got any numbers for undocumented?
Numbers for other medical related issues besides death?
And if u think back alleys are good then y not main alleys?
And something tells me your numbers are off anyway. I’ll let somebody with a little more knowledge speak to that though