What moral justification besides bodily autonomy do you use to support the position t

[Rev. Rye]

Well, here's one crucual point: Making it illegal makes things a whole lot worse than things would be if it was simply kept legal. Case in point, an old OB-GYN who was active in the pre-Roe days explains all the medical procedures he had to perform on women who had to terminate their own pregnancies illegally, practices that vanished when the Supreme Court authorised medical personnel who actually knew what the Hell they were doing to perform it.

For a more visceral example, a woman named Gerri Santoro tried to have a friend abort her pregnancy in a motel. It went about as well as one might expect it to, and the police photo of her mortal husk lying on the floor with a towel between her legs has become something of a pro-choice symbol. And it's pretty gruesome; fortunately, I can't find it in any sort of decent resolution, but I won't post it here regardless, but it should be easy enough to find online. Once again, if she had had someone who knew what they were doing performing it, she would most likely have survived.

It's worth nothing that, according to CDC statistics, 3,809,954 were performed between 2008 and 2012. Of those, only 36 resulted in death. Note that, as unfortunate as 36 women dying is, this is still, in fact, significantly less than the number of women who die in childbirth (and in any country). Still, the chances of either one are pretty slim, but take either out of the hands of medical professionals, and we can expect the odds to rise.