Data on abortions before and after legalization

[FuzzyBunny116]

I can’t get over that Guttmacher Institute study which says that criminalizing abortion doesn’t lower the number of abortions. First, because I don’t trust Guttmacher, and second, because it goes against common sense.

Does anyone have any data which tells the abortion rates before and after legalization, in say, certain countries? Or know where I can find it? I looked a while ago and found that we perform something like four times as many abortions a year since Roe v Wade was overturned (and our population has doubled), but I don’t know how many we performed the year after Roe v Wade.

Does anyone have or know where to find statistics on abortion rates before and after legalization?

 

[Spirithound]

Sorry, I don’t have any stats/sources offhand… Do you have a link for your Guttmacher stats? I also question how they obtained these stats. People aren’t very likely to admit to having committed a crime.

 

[inthecloud]

The usual tactic is to inflate the numbers pre-legalization so they match the post-legalization period.
I remember reading in TIME magazine sciense annuary. No longer made. In 1971/72, TIME ignoring the future storm over abortion, wrote that it was a new birth control alternative, and aproved the legalization in California, New York and other States.
And viewed favorably the begining of the Roe Vs Wade lawsuit in Texas. They said that the number of ilegal abortions in the US was betwen IM and 1.2M. Then when it was legal it became 1.5 M. And has remained the same even if the numbers of reproductive age women in the population has declined.