How to shut up people who are against abortion

[pocaracas]

Before that, the statistics pointed to some 10 thousand illegal abortion per year. Now, we have some 8 thousand legal ones per year... and the illegals became negligible.
Which world do you prefer?

Obviously I'd prefer neither. The fact remains that the abortions were illegal. Just because many people do illegal things doesn't make it right.

I agree.
But, to me, it doesn't seem like something that should lead to imprisonment, nor fines... I don't think many women abort for the fun of it...

I would also call into question any statistic which hopes to accurately count illegal abortions, which are by their nature kept off the books. I would very much like to see how the counting (or more likely, the estimation) was done.

Aye, I then added the EDITs... I guess you missed them.
Here's the second one:
EDIT2: Found an estimate for illegal abortions between 20 and 40 thousand in 2003, prior to the new law... it seems they extrapolated this from having about 1000 women admitted into the hospitals for complications in that year.


yeah... it comes from a blog, so meh... but it matches with the estimates I'd heard on the news at the time... of course, with time, my memory become crappier and crappier on the actual numbers...