In the years leading up to Roe, approximately 1 million women each year had an illegal abortion. The vast majority of those women had to resort either to dangerous self-induced abortions or to the dark & often forbidding underworld of untrained & unreliable back-alley abortionists. As a result, many thousands suffered serious illness or permanent injury, not to mention those who died in the course of illegal abortions.
The realities of that world alone makes Roe a freedom decision.
One million women getting abortions each year didn't occur until after Roe v. Wade. When abortion is illegal, less women get abortions.
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