In the late 1920s some 15,000 women a year died from abortions.In the decade before Roe v Wade, 5000 women a year died, mostly Black and Hispanic women.
Well-connected white women with private health insurance were sometimes able to obtain "therapeutic" abortions, a never-defined category that remained legal throughout the epoch of illegal abortion.Even for the privileged, though, access to safe abortion narrowed throughout the fifties.
Under a President McCain (God forbid) Roe v Wade would fade into history upon the next death of a Supreme Court Justice.This would not stop abortions;nothing will ever stop abortions.They have been a part of human history since the beginning and always will be.Under capitalism, women cannot be equal to men without having control over reproduction.But,if Roe v Wade is overturned will abortions be safe?
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