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Originally posted by Lil' Hannah
women will still have abortions, albeit illegal ones.
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I think this is a really important point. Abortion was illegal once and it didn't keep women from having abortions it just made abortions more dangerous. Women who were wealthy could still get abortions. They went to Europe or to other countries for them. And women who were poor went to "doctors" who did back alley abortions in unsafe conditions. Desperation can make somebody do pretty risky stuff.
When my mother was in college a girl on her floor got pregnant. Her parents were relatively well off. They paid a GYN a lot of money to do an illegal abortion. She suffered a complication, one that today would be easily treatable, but because he was afraid of prosecution he didn't call an ambulance and she bled to death. Left with her dead body in the office, he freaked out and hacked up her body and tried to flush it down the toilet. He then left the country in an attempt to flee prosecution. She was 18 years old.