You hear about Savita Halappanavar endlessly, who supposedly died due to lack of access to legal abortion. The abortion rights movement and its media allies present the deaths of women in places where abortion is not legal as evidence that it should be permitted in order to save women’s lives. However, you never hear about the women who die after procuring legal abortion, and according to Americans United for Life, last year a record 12 women died in the United States after having an abortion. But if women dying in places where abortion isn’t permitted is evidence that abortion should be legalized, shouldn’t women who die where abortion is allowed be evidence that abortion should be re-criminalized?
