A few years after Roe V. Wade, Dr. Dennis Cavanaugh wrote in The American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology:
“It really makes no difference whether a woman dies from legal or illegal abortion, she is dead nonetheless. I find no comfort in the fact that legal abortion is now the leading cause of abortion related maternal deaths in the US.”
Dennis Cavanaugh “Effect of Liberalized Abortion on Maternal Mortality Rates” American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology February 1978: 375
He noted that the legalization of abortion did not lead to a huge drop in abortion related deaths that pro-choicers predicted. Many illegal abortionists simply began operating legally, killing women after Roe just like they killed women before Roe. See stories and details here
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