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Newspaper Article
Overturning Roe v. Wade would save our society
2006
Overview
[Leslie J. Reagan] wrongly claimed that maternal deaths from abortion produced 50 percent of the nation's maternal mortality rate. The Bureau of Vital Statistics says that you would have to go back to the year before penicillin to find a year when there were more than 1,000 deaths from illegal abortions. With penicillin, the number of deaths dropped to 300 a year. After that, there was a continuing decline. In 1967, there were 160 who died from illegal abortion, and in 1972, the year before Roe vs. Wade, 39 died in all 50 states. Reagan's next claim was that criminalization of abortion could double maternal mortality. The Elliot Institute, an organization which studies the after-effects of abortion, in 2005 said that deaths from suicide, accidents and homicide are 248 percent higher in a year following an abortion. This figure clearly shows that legal abortion is more dangerous and deadly than Reagan would have you believe.
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Gannett Media Corp
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