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Originally Posted by PhoenixAlive
Its more like a 50% difference... I'm sure that many of the women who have had legal abortions would not have had them if they had to resort to back-alley abortions. So eliminating the legal abortions throughout the world would cut down the number of abortions worldwide to either medically necessary abortions or those who are desperate enough to get back-alley abortions.
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No, it's a 4% difference. 52-48 = 4. Assuming 42 million abortions in the world to be correct there are 20.16 million illegal abortions per year and 21.84 million legal ones. If legal abortions and illegal abortions are effectively 50-50 then that shows that making it illegal doesn't work.
No because, as I showed in the post before last which you didn't respond to, legality has no effect on abortion rate. The only thing that has an effect on abortion rate is good sex education and good access to contraception. As abortion legality makes no difference to the rate it is better to have it done safely to the women that want it rather than impose a restrictive law, based on pretty much nothing, which will result in the deaths of tens of thousands of women and the permanent injury of many thousands more.