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Pro-choice author admits that claim about women dying from illegal abortions “isn’t accurate” but then adds another blatant falsehood

Aug 12, 2021

By Sarah Terzo

Pro-choice author Karen Blumenthal says:

“During the 1960s and up to the present day, some abortion rights advocates said that as many as 5000 or 10,000 women died a year from illegal abortions when the procedure was a crime.

It’s a dramatic figure – but it isn’t accurate.

Antiabortion advocates have charged that the number was wildly exaggerated for political reasons. But mostly, it was just outdated.

The big number comes from a study of abortion deaths in the 1930s, before antibiotics were widely available. And the researcher may have stretched that number a bit.”

Karen Blumenthal,  Jane Against the World: Roe v. Wade and the Fight for Reproductive Rights (New York: Roaring Brook Press, 2020) p.76.

In reality, the claim that 10,000 women were dying from illegal abortions was not just “outdated” but blatantly false.

Editor’s note. This appeared at Clinic Quotes and is reposted with permission. Sarah Terzo is offering a short, free pro-life eBook that exposes the pro-choice movement. Click here to get it.

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