Women who face deadly consequences of a pregnancy deserve to choose to live. Teen girls, whose bodies are not yet ready for childbirth and impoverished adult women sometimes use drastic measures to terminate the pregnancy, and often die. Reproductive choice can be the only thing that stands between a woman and death. Women who face deadly consequences of a pregnancy deserve to choose to live. Teen girls, whose bodies are not yet ready for childbirth and impoverished women, are more likely to die. Before abortion became legal, illegal abortions occurred, such as a coat hanger abortion. .What is a coat hanger abortion? A coat hanger abortion is where a women would find a rough end of a coat hanger and stick it into her cervix. Even when done “correctly” it is unlikely the abortion would take. The coat hanger is really just introducing infection into the vagina and the fetus. During the 1950s-1960s the number of illegal abortions that occurred ranged from 200,000 to 1.2 million per year. Prior to Roe vs. Wade as many as 5,000 American women died annually as a direct result of unsafe abortions. That’s what you have to think about in the long term. Making abortions illegal wouldn't solve anything. Women would still have them but instead of losing an unborn baby you would also lose a woman if the unsafe abortion went wrong (Gunter, Jen. Anatomy of a coat hanger Abortion. Word Press. Com.
Women who face deadly consequences of a pregnancy deserve to choose to live. Teen girls, whose bodies are not yet ready for childbirth and impoverished adult women sometimes use drastic measures to terminate the pregnancy, and often die. Reproductive choice can be the only thing that stands between a woman and death. Women who face deadly consequences of a pregnancy deserve to choose to live. Teen girls, whose bodies are not yet ready for childbirth and impoverished women, are more likely to die. Before abortion became legal, illegal abortions occurred, such as a coat hanger abortion. .What is a coat hanger abortion? A coat hanger abortion is where a women would find a rough end of a coat hanger and stick it into her cervix. Even when done “correctly” it is unlikely the abortion would take. The coat hanger is really just introducing infection into the vagina and the fetus. During the 1950s-1960s the number of illegal abortions that occurred ranged from 200,000 to 1.2 million per year. Prior to Roe vs. Wade as many as 5,000 American women died annually as a direct result of unsafe abortions. That’s what you have to think about in the long term. Making abortions illegal wouldn't solve anything. Women would still have them but instead of losing an unborn baby you would also lose a woman if the unsafe abortion went wrong (Gunter, Jen. Anatomy of a coat hanger Abortion. Word Press. Com.