I’ve read Bernard Nathanson’s book and heard him speak. In the inner cities, yes, many, many women hospitalized from the complications of abortions - but they mostly lived. I asked him how many women were dying from abortion a year in the late 50s, early 60s and he said it was a couple hundred.
See the graph I posted in 34. The number of women dying from abortion has NOTHING to do with legality, the number dropped as antibiotics were developed (the drop followed the same patterns as other minor surgeries).