Planned Parenthood tabulated 745,440 legal abortions in 1973. They claim there was a need for 1,258,000 to 1,745,000 in 1973 to 1974. They also claim there were only 17,000 illegal abortions. This translates to the statistic that only 1.6% of the women with unwanted pregnancies will get an abortion if abortion is illegal
Christopher Tietze et.al. “How Much of the Need Was Met in 1973” in “Provisional Estimates of Abortion Need and Services in the Years Following the 1973 Supreme Court Decisions, United States, Each State and Metropolitan Area” a report by the Alan Guttmacher Institute, PPFA, P. 31 to 36
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