And in case you think that such things never happen in the enlightened post Roe era, remember that Daisy Roe, a systems analyst for a defense contractor, let her boyfriend perform a fatal abortion on her in 1990.
Some risk-taking is done as the result of a cost-benefit analysis, however slipshod or ill-informed. And some is done because the person has mental health issues. And we can't always know why people did the things they did.

For more on pre-legalization abortion, see The Bad Old Days of Abortion
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