If it hadn’t been legal, I wouldn’t have done it

From a woman who had an abortion:

“If it hadn’t been legal, I probably would have had the baby then because I wouldn’t have wanted to risk putting my health in any risk… If it wouldn’t have been legal I probably just would just gone ahead and made the decision to have the baby.”

Sumi Hoshiko Our Choices: Women’s Personal Decisions about Abortion (New York: Harrington Park Press, 1993) 90

Many women would not have illegal abortions if legal abortions weren’t available. This is only one example.

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