of having the procedure safely. how many of them would've had the procedure anyway? in likely unsafe conditions? which could've exposed them to serious risk of long term injury.

b/c that's the point of 'legalized abortion' - that we understand that prohibiting abortion via mainstream channels will only result in poor women risking their lives to have abortions on the black market. where the doctors and settings aren't regulated and controlled.

we legalized abortion b/c we value the poor, disenfranchised women who will choose abortion. if we didn't value those women we'd go back to the prohibition of abortion. and then only rich women or those w/connections would get those safer abortions on the black market. you know, the way things used to be.

talk to enough older women and you'll hear a story or few about some woman they know (if not themselves) who had a black market abortion. i've heard horror stories.