Well, the Interweb is aflutter over the nomination of Kavanaugh and what might happen with abortion law.
I doubt much of anything. The law will continue to be a cover for weakening morality.
Why It’s Impossible For Brett Kavanaugh To Make Abortion Illegal opens with one side:
Again, I doubt it. Roberts runs a tight, narrow court.Here’s NARAL, declaring on Twitter that Kavanaugh would be “the fifth vote to overturn and gut Roe v. Wade, criminalize abortion and punish women.”
The article then presents the other side:
Let's look at this worn out scare tactic.ormer Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards appeared on “Hardball” to proclaim “abortion existed before Roe and it was simply illegal and unsafe and young, healthy women died routinely in emergency rooms across this country and that’s what we’re looking at again if this court tips to the other side.”
The GUTTMACHERINSTITUTE reports Lessons from Before Roe: Will Past be Prologue?
There are two deceptions here.ILLEGAL ABORTIONS WERE COMMON
Estimates of the number of illegal abortions in the 1950s and 1960s ranged from 200,000 to 1.2 million per year. One analysis, extrapolating from data from North Carolina, concluded that an estimated 829,000 illegal or self-induced abortions occurred in 1967.
One stark indication of the prevalence of illegal abortion was the death toll. In 1930, abortion was listed as the official cause of death for almost 2,700 women—nearly one-fifth (18%) of maternal deaths recorded in that year. The death toll had declined to just under 1,700 by 1940, and to just over 300 by 1950 (most likely because of the introduction of antibiotics in the 1940s, which permitted more effective treatment of the infections that frequently developed after illegal abortion). By 1965, the number of deaths due to illegal abortion had fallen to just under 200, but illegal abortion still accounted for 17% of all deaths attributed to pregnancy and childbirth that year. And these are just the number that were officially reported; the actual number was likely much higher.
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Abortion Mortality
The number of deaths from abortion has declined dramatically since Roe v. Wade.
One is the isolation of abortion-related deaths. For instance, the worst year reported claims: "In 1930, abortion was listed as the official cause of death for almost 2,700 women—nearly one-fifth (18%) of maternal deaths recorded in that year." OK, but in 1930, the CDC reports in Leading Causes of Death, 1900-1998 (.pdf) the number of deaths due to all causes was 1,327,240. Abortion-related deaths accounted for just 0.2%. From 1900 to 1998 abortion is never a leading cause by a long shot.
While the bell tolls for all and no death insignificant, the rported numbers are out of all proportion.
The other decption is in the chart. Why do they start with the year 1965? Why not go back to the year 1930 and include that year along with 1940, 1950, and show that "By 1965, the number of deaths due to illegal abortion had fallen" all along without legalizing abortion?
Abortion-related deaths did not declne because of legalization, which is absurd on the face of it, but because of advances in medical science.
Why be deceptive? Because there are those who are more than willing to fall for it.
The other side shouldn't scare people that Kavanaugh will suddenly change things.