Sentences with phrase «in a back alley abortion»
Do you really want her children to be left motherless when she dies in a back alley abortion?
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«Perhaps the most powerful of the pro-choice arguments,» Ms. Crandall points out, was that illegality of abortion would leave America in «the dark ages when thousands of women died because of unsafe, back - alley abortions — between five thousand and ten thousand a year was the figure usually given» in the 1970s.
Back alley abortions will return, women will die, and we will still have a horrifying number of children living in poverty and crime.
Abortions done in back alleys for the poor.
Lader argued that the original intent of the anti-abortion laws which were passed in the 19th century was to protect the health of women from the dangers of quack abortionists, but since legal abortions had become so safe, the continued presence of these laws had the opposite of their intended effect, forcing women into a dangerous back - alley underground.
Moreover, making abortion illegal would actually cause more mothers to die as they'd go in back alleys to get it done.
A great many people are trying to ban forms of womens» healthcare, and perhaps you are too young to remember, but when it was illegal before, large numbers of women turned to «back alley» abortions, often performed in unsanitary conditions by untrained people.
The narrative is fueled by the intimidating clack of shoe heels across wooden floors, the slap of faces hit by fists, the wail of anguish choked by a mute girl in an unbearable back - alley abortion.
In 2008, 12 percent of maternal deaths in the region were caused by back - alley or otherwise illegal abortion procedureIn 2008, 12 percent of maternal deaths in the region were caused by back - alley or otherwise illegal abortion procedurein the region were caused by back - alley or otherwise illegal abortion procedures.
Of course, the harsh restrictions don't stop abortion from happening, and horror stories abound: of 4 million unsafe and illegal abortions occurring per year; of women being killed and mutilated after botched back - alley procedures; of pregnant victims of rape and incest — like, recently, an 11 - year - old girl in Paraguay who was raped by her stepfather — being forced to carry their abusers» children to term.