The Medical And Social Benefits Of Safe And Legal Abortion
Despite the claims of those who oppose safe and legal abortion, many demonstrable health benefits — physical, emotional, and social — have accrued to Americans since 1973, when the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion in its decision, Roe v. Wade.
The most important benefit was the end of an era that supported the proliferation of “back alley butchers” who were motivated by money alone and performed unsafe, medically incompetent abortions that left many women dead or injured. Also, compassionate mainstream physicians, who provided clandestine, medically safe abortions, did not exploit their patients, and were motivated by principle rather than by financial concerns, no longer had to fear imprisonment and the loss of their medical licenses for performing abortions after Roe was decided (Joffe, 1995). Today, as women’s right to choose is being challenged by Republican lawmakers across the country, it is important to remember how far Roe has brought us as a society and to note some of the many benefits that resulted from the legalization of abortion.
https://publichealthwatch.wordpress...d-social-benefits-of-safe-and-legal-abortion/
Despite the claims of those who oppose safe and legal abortion, many demonstrable health benefits — physical, emotional, and social — have accrued to Americans since 1973, when the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion in its decision, Roe v. Wade.
The most important benefit was the end of an era that supported the proliferation of “back alley butchers” who were motivated by money alone and performed unsafe, medically incompetent abortions that left many women dead or injured. Also, compassionate mainstream physicians, who provided clandestine, medically safe abortions, did not exploit their patients, and were motivated by principle rather than by financial concerns, no longer had to fear imprisonment and the loss of their medical licenses for performing abortions after Roe was decided (Joffe, 1995). Today, as women’s right to choose is being challenged by Republican lawmakers across the country, it is important to remember how far Roe has brought us as a society and to note some of the many benefits that resulted from the legalization of abortion.
https://publichealthwatch.wordpress...d-social-benefits-of-safe-and-legal-abortion/
