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Originally Posted by Dominic
It means thousands of women dying trying to abort their pregnancies illegally and dangerously.
The last published article I could find in a peer-reviewed journal seems to suggest a maternal death rate in "unsafe" abortions of about .03%. The most recent # for US abortions I could find was 2014 - 652.5 K or so.
If you assume that every one of those ended up being done illegally (which is a surrogate for the "unsafe" abortion above, you'd end up with somewhere around 1800 deaths. That number is probably way too high - abortion isn't going away in any number of Blue states, which have the highest populations. So as a scientific wild ass guess, several hundred. Of course, you have to add in long term/chronic problems arising from the procedure, which add significant morbidity. So while I doubt you'd see thousands of deaths, you'd see a lot more than we have now (close to zero) and a lot more infectious/chronic infertility problems to go along. I'd also guess the death rate might be lower for a couple of other reasons - the # of abortions being done has been dropping for a decade or so, and I'd guess that a fair number of women who would die from an unsafe abortion in second/third world countries would survive in the US - death is usually from sepsis or bleeding, and both are fixable if you get seen soon enough by someone who knows what to do. But as the current # of deaths is close to zero (I've been practicing for 25 years and have never seen one (or heard of one, for that matter, in the places I work) any increase is going to be significant.
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Last edited by hobbes9324; 06-28-2018 at 05:26 AM.