Tara Murtha & Susan Frietsche: Nothing 'pro-life' about overturning Roe v. Wade [View all]

Tara Murtha & Susan Frietsche: Nothing 'pro-life' about overturning Roe v. Wade

TARA MURTHA AND SUSAN FRIETSCHE Saturday Jan. 12, 2019, 7:03 p.m.

Updated 20 hours ago

Next week is the 46th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark abortion case that affirmed a woman’s constitutional right to access safe, legal abortion.

Every year around this time, people who call themselves “pro-life” cite statistics related to the number of abortions in the United States since 1973 while calling to overturn Roe.

Abortion is indeed a common experience. One in four U.S. women will have an abortion by the time she is 45.

Of course, women don’t have abortions because of a decades- old court case. American women had abortions before Roe. We know this from the testimony of women who lived through those times and the death certificates for women who didn’t. In 1965, 17 percent of all pregnancy- related deaths were related to illegal abortion.

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