Tara Murtha & Susan Frietsche: Nothing 'pro-life' about overturning Roe v. Wade [View all]
Tara Murtha & Susan Frietsche: Nothing 'pro-life' about overturning Roe v. Wade
TARA MURTHA AND SUSAN FRIETSCHE Saturday Jan. 12, 2019, 7:03 p.m.
Updated 20 hours ago
Next week is the 46th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark abortion case that affirmed a womans constitutional right to access safe, legal abortion.
Every year around this time, people who call themselves pro-life cite statistics related to the number of abortions in the United States since 1973 while calling to overturn Roe.
Abortion is indeed a common experience. One in four U.S. women will have an abortion by the time she is 45.
Of course, women dont have abortions because of a decades- old court case. American women had abortions before Roe. We know this from the testimony of women who lived through those times and the death certificates for women who didnt. In 1965, 17 percent of all pregnancy- related deaths were related to illegal abortion.
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