One researcher commented on illegal abortions which were performed in Australia before the liberalizing of abortion laws:
“Oral histories and memoirs suggest that most women who sought and found abortions had relatively safe operations… Research findings suggest that many or even most women could find a doctor, nurse, or skilled nonmedical provider to perform an “illegal” abortion before the middle of the century.”
Rebecca M Albury Beyond the Slogans: the Politics of Reproduction (St. Leonard’s, NSW Australia: Allen & Unwin, 1999) 7, 13
Legalizing abortion in Australia, like in the US, was not needed because thousands of women were dying from illegal operations. Read about the myth of back alley abortion deaths in America here.
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