If your figures were right, and your assertions were correct, then there would be no reason for the 40 million abortions that Pale posted about. Somehow the figures don't add up. If there is no need for abortions, and science will convince people as Chippo said, then once again, we have no need for draconian laws. Something doesn't fit here, I'm not sure what but... the law stands.
I looked up your citation: Approximately 50% of all maternal deaths resulted from illegal abortion during the first half of the 20th century
Estimates of the annual number of illegal abortions in the 1950s and 60s range from 200,000 to 1.2 million, even though abortion procedures were unsafe and often life-threatening, in addition to being illegal
During the 1950s and 60s, each year an estimated 160 to 260 women died from illegal abortions, while thousands more were seriously injured
You didn't actually post all the pertinent information, did you? Fifty percent of all maternal deaths, thousands seriously injured, and you want to go back to that?
