I didn't rate you negatively, but as I said, I don't think the available evidence supports your conclusion that abortion being illegal results in fewer abortions being performed. It also doesn't reduce public costs.
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You probably won't like this
source, but scroll down to the heading "Abortion restrictions" a little way down the page.
I did a bit of research a while back, and to boil it all down, the birthrate did not nosedive in 1973. Yes, it did decline a bit, but it was doing so anyway as a result of being the post-Baby Boom years.
As for that picture of Geraldine Santoro that was spoilered, there's a LOT more to that story. I first heard about her on a PBS movie called "Leona's Sister Gerri", and telling Gerri's story would probably take as long as watching the movie itself. The main things I remember were:
1. Leona and Gerri were two of a family of 15 children.
2. Gerri married at 17 to a much-older man she met at a bus stop and had known for THREE WEEKS, because she was determined to be married before her best friend.
3. As one might expect, the marriage was a disaster; he was an alcoholic and very abusive and was himself deceased by the time the movie was made, and their two daughters, one of whom had had an abortion herself, were young adults at the time. He did raise the girls after their mother's death, and by this time, he had gotten sober and they did say he became a good father.
4. Gerri separated from her husband, and had met another man and was 6 1/2 months pregnant by him when some things happened and she thought she and her husband, who knew nothing about any of this, might reconcile. That's when her boyfriend rented the motel room and did the "abortion", which just plain old wouldn't be legal under any circumstances. (Nowadays, if a woman is that far along and her life is endangered, they deliver the baby.)
RIP Geraldine Santoro, and your baby too. Both of you deserved better than this.
I also suspect that a lot of those right-wing politicians, were they to have a teenage daughter become pregnant, would make her get rid of it, even if she didn't want to. THAT to me is anti-choice, and most of the stories I've heard over the years about women who regretted their abortions, whether they had religious overtones or not, were about women who did it either because someone else wanted them to have it done, or they were worried about what other people would think about them being pregnant - in short, it wasn't her decision.
Silent-film actress Gloria Swanson said in her autobiography, published shortly before her death in the early 1980s, that her only regret was the abortion she had at the height of her career in the 1920s, a procedure that almost killed her, of a baby that was unplanned but NOT unwanted. Why did she do this? Because she had just gotten married, and knew that if she were to give birth 7 months after the wedding, her career would be over.
