{"id":267493,"date":"2022-05-07T13:42:33","date_gmt":"2022-05-07T18:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=267493"},"modified":"2024-09-20T16:16:27","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T21:16:27","slug":"facts-illegal-abortion-never-thousands-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/facts-illegal-abortion-never-thousands-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"GET THE FACTS: Illegal abortion did not lead to thousands of women’s deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Illegal abortion has always resulted in thousands of women’s deaths \u2014 or so we are told by the abortion lobby and its media friends anytime “abortion rights” are under perceived threat. There is a good reason why they make this claim; it was successfully used to sway public opinion on abortion before\u00a0Roe<\/em>. These are highly fabricated claims which have been debunked many times, even by the Washington Post, which awarded\u00a0Four Pinocchios<\/a> to Planned Parenthood’s former president Leana Wen for claiming that \u2018thousands\u2019 of women died every year before Roe.<\/p>\n

In 1967, Dr. Christopher Tietze, an abortion advocate once awarded Planned Parenthood\u2019s\u00a0infamous<\/a> Margaret Sanger Award, suggested that the inflated illegal abortion death numbers were made up to scare politicians into legalizing abortion. \u201cThe higher estimates are made by people who feel in order to raise sympathy for liberalized abortion laws they have to make people afraid,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Tietze also called the inflated numbers \u201cunmitigated nonsense<\/b>,\u201d and suggested that merely liberalizing abortion \u201cprobably would not have a big impact on mortality.\u201d<\/p>\n

Key Takeaways:\u00a0<\/b><\/h4>\n

Before the decriminalization of abortion…<\/b><\/p>\n

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  • There was no accurate collection of abortion numbers, nor abortion related deaths.<\/li>\n
  • The abortion lobby fabricated illegal abortion deaths to gain sympathy and legalize abortion.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • It was likely the invention of antibiotics in the 1940s which led to a decrease in all <\/i>maternal deaths.<\/li>\n
  • Legalizing abortion did not <\/i>reduce deaths; women still die today from legal abortion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n