10 things no one will tell a woman about abortion

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10 things no one will tell a woman about abortion

1. No, 1 in 3 women don’t have an abortion.

Activists often claim that 1 in 3 American women have had abortions, but that is a myth. Most often used to support this claim is a statistic from a 2011 study which even its authors said in hindsight was inaccurate. The study used information from 2008, so the study authors had no way of knowing that, in subsequent years, abortion rates would plummet to a record low.

In addition, basic math disproves the 1 in 3 myth. The current abortion rate, according to Planned Parenthood’s former research arm, the Guttmacher Institute, is 16.9 per 1,000 women. Just under half of these are repeat abortions, with 55% of abortions being first-time abortions. 55% of 16.9 is 9.295 first-time abortions per 1,000 women. Guttmacher’s statistics take place over a 30 years, so the math would look like this: 30 years x 9.295 = 278.85, or 279 women out of 1,000 who will have at least one abortion in their lifetime. 279 of 1000 equals 27.9%, not 33%.

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8. Thousands of women didn’t die in back-alley abortions before Roe.

Campoamor, like pro-abortion activists before her, claims thousands of women were dying from back-alley abortions before Roe v. Wade. This often-repeated “statistic” isn’t remotely true. FactCheck.org debunked it, citing Dr. Christopher Tietze, statistician for Planned Parenthood and the Center for Disease Control, who said that “in all likelihood it (the actual number) was under 1,000.” FactCheck.org wrote, “From the 1940s through the 1960s, in fact, the best available evidence shows a dramatic decline in abortion-related deaths occurring even before the first states liberalized abortion laws in 1967,” and explained that this decline was likely due to penicillin and the birth-control pill. Bernard Nathanson, a founder of NARAL, later admitted that the statistic about women dying from illegal abortions was made up.

In addition, a former Planned Parenthood director wrote in a July 1960 American Journal of Public Health article that 90% of illegal abortions were performed by licensed physicians in good standing, not back-alley butchers using coat hangers. Calderon pointed out that in 1957, there were only 260 abortion-related deaths in the entire country, and concluded that illegal abortion was not dangerous.