Mary Claderone (then Medical Director of Planned Parenthood) and Nancy Howell Lee (a pro choice researcher) both investigated the practice of criminal abortion in the pre-legalization era. Calderone estimated that 90% of all illegal abortions in the early 1960s were being done by physicians. Calderone further estimated that 8% were self-induced and that 2% were induced by someone other than the woman or a doctor. Lee estimated that 89% of pre-legalization abortions were done by physicians, an additional 5% by nurses or others with some medical training, and 6% were done by non-medical persons or the woman herself.
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90% performed by physicians, either illegally or through loopholes in the law
5% performed by trained non-physicians (medical and lay)
5% performed by amateurs, either the woman or somebody else
This is a far cry from what the abortion lobby commonly claims.
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For more on pre-legalization abortion, see The Bad Old Days of Abortion
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1 comment:
This topic doesn't really have an end... even if you try to kill your baby with cheap viagra it's a crime, I guess that the abbortion it's good for woman that don't have childs.
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