Likewise, your cited facts don’t mean much. You don’t source them. This page from NCBI on Mexico hardly seems to prove any of your assertions.
The NCBI article on Mexico is about how poor the estimates are from the Guttmacher Institute for estimating abortion. I didn’t cite any of the rest. I did suggest
scholar.google.com, but I will provide some of the references I could quickly access now.
If you can find abortion estimates, please post them.
ajog.org/article/S0002-9378%2831%2990756-4/abstract
Taussig, F.J. (1931) Abortion in relation to fetal and maternal welfare. American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology. Volume 22, Issue 6, Pages 868–878.
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1.1. *An estimate of 700,000 abortions annually in the United States is certainly no exaggeration of the actual condition.* There is every reason to believe that an increase in this number is taking place with each decade similar to the experiences of other civilized countries.
2.2. This increase is the result partly of the decreased infant mortality, partly arises from the changed social and economic status of woman, and partly is the outcome of economic conditions resulting from the World War.
3.3. The increase is noticed primarily among married women who have three or more children.
4.4. All efforts to control the incidence of criminal abortion by legislation have resulted in failure.
5.5. Birth control may prove a factor in the reduction of criminal abortions, especially if more reliable contraceptive measures are discovered.
6.6. The maternal death loss from abortion in the United States has been estimated as 15,000 annually. Deaths from puerperal sepsis following abortions are relatively seven times as frequent as those from puerperal sepsis after childbirth.
7.7. The Russian experiment with legalized abortion indicates a definitely lower maternal mortality with operations done openly in hospitals than with secret, illegal operations as formerly.
8.8. A decrease in maternal mortality can be expected from improving the training of medical students and physicians in the proper management of abortion cases and from an increased knowledge concerning the prevention and treatment of septic infection.
9.9. The abortion problem, so vital to the human race, demands more careful and more open study, free from the trammels of political or religious dogma. Women should be taught to respect their duties, as mothers, to the social state, and the state in turn should be made to feel its obligations to motherhood, granting such relief, financial and otherwise, especially to those with many children, as will to the greatest degree avoid economic distress and promote the physical wellbeing of the mother.
10.10. The women of this country should be told that interference with pregnancy, even in its earliest stages, is not the harmless procedure they generally seem to consider it to be, but is a procedure inevitably associated with considerable risk to life and especially to future health.
ajog.org/article/S0002-9378%2839%2990065-7/abstract
Simons, J.H. (1939) Statistical analysis of one thousand abortions. American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Volume 37, Issue 5, Pages 840–849.
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1.1. One thousand cases of abortion are reported.
2.2. There is evidence of increasing number of abortions, principally in the self-induced group.
3.3. Religion does not seem to be a deterrent to induction of abortion.
4.4. As Taussig states, “abortion is a problem concerned with the married woman,” both induced and criminal, and it is in this group that the high death rate is contained.
5.5. Most spontaneous and induced abortions occur under three months and most often under 30 years of age, increasing again in incidence after 35. The criminal abortions occur in greatest percentage in single women and early married life.
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The total abortion incidence is 1 abortion to 2.7 pregnancies and 1 abortion to 1.6 confinements. This is according to the histories of our abortion cases. The relation of hospital abortion to hospital confinements is as 1:5.3 and stillbirths to abortions as 1:5.2.
7.7. Hemorrhage is a factor in lowering the resistance of the patient but not in the mortality.
8.8. Missed abortions were of 0.3 per cent incidence; therapeutic abortions 0.5 per cent.
9.9. The mortality rate was 1.9 per cent with the most frequent complications septicemia, peritonitis, pneumonia, phlebitis, and distant infarcts.
10.10. Operative incidence 51 per cent.
11.11. We have followed the conservative treatment established, here by Adair and Litzenberg, that is, in septic cases, we use expectant treatment unless complicated by hemorrhage; incision of abscesses if properly located, later evacuation if necessary when there is approximately normal leucocyte count and temperature for a period of at least five days. The sedimentation time does not seem to be of much value here. Nonseptic cases are evacuated, almost routinely, to conserve blood and shorten hospitalization. Repeated transfusions are of particular value in infected cases, and of course those with hemorrhage. Nearly all cases with a hemoglobin of 60 per cent or less received one or more transfusions. Sulfanilamide seems to give promise of potent therapy.
12.12. Invalidism, more or less permanent, and the high maternal mortality of abortion may hopefully be combated through improvement in moral and economic standards, education in family limitation, and early prenatal care. Endocrine and vitamin therapy may eliminate many of the spontaneous abortions.*
Stupak and the others didn’t lose their seats due to gerrymandering. They lost because they betrayed the people who put them in office.