Legalizing Abortion and Back-alley Abortionists :: Argumentative Persuasive Topics

Legalizing Abortion and Back- bothey Abortionists The head of one of the major pro-choice/pro-abortion organizations in the U.S. has said In 1972 there were 1,000,000 flagitious abortions and 5,000 to 10,000 women died from them. The data would suggest that legalized abortion is a godsend for women. This essay will examine the lawfulness or falsity of the above quote in each(prenominal) of its complexity. true(a)? Or False? No one issues. For the obvious reason that black-market abortions have never been reported. There are no statistics, no poem anywhere to report. Therefore, if anyone tells you that there were X numbers of illegal abortions just activewhere in a certain time, they are guessing. The pro-abortion leader may guess 1,000,000. The pro-life spokesman may guess 100,000, but both are guessing. There is notwithstanding one reported figure that can lead us to some degree of accurate estimate of the numbers of illegal abortions and that is the number of women w ho died from illegal abortions. Many nations report only one figure for women who die, lumping together womens deaths from willing abortion (miscarriage), legally induced abortion and illegally induced abortion. much(prenominal) statistics are no help. The United States, since the 1940s, has reported such deaths separately, so we know the number of deaths from illegal abortions. Good Now if we knew how umpteen illegal abortions it took to take a shit one death, we could easily calculate the total number of illegal abortions. The fuss is, no one has the slightest idea how many it took, and so were back to where we started from. How many women died? The chart used on the floor of the US Senate during the tumultuous pass on abortion in 1981 was compiled from official U.S. statistics and was not challenged by the pro-abortion forces. It shows that after(prenominal) Penicillin became available to control infections, the number of deaths stabilized during the 1950s at about 250/y ear. e.g. 1956 = 250. Note that by 1966, with abortion still illegal in all states, the number of deaths had dropped steadily to half that number - 120, because of new and break up antibiotics, better surgery and the establishment of intensive care units in hospitals. This was in the looking at of a rising population. Between 1967 and 1970 sixteen states legalized abortion. In most it was limited, only for rape, incest and severe fetal handicap (life of mother was legal in all states).