To hear the Left tell it, now that abortion is legal, there are no botched abortions. No unwanted children are delivered, no sterility from the procedure, no hemoraging, no deaths.
“safe”, legal, and rare is a myth.
Exactly and as for "rare," abortion kills more Americans than heart disease, cancer and strokes COMBINED.
Back when I was still working and a staff nurse in an emergency department, the older nurses would tell me that it was so much better “now that these girls can go to a real doctor” because they used to see so many self-induced abortions that were really horrible.
I don’t know how bad the ones they used to see before Roe v. Wade were, but the ones after were pretty awful. The “real doctors” who did the botched abortions I saw should have been shot. There was only one doctor that would take emergency calls for the clinic at that time. The abortionists didn’t live in the community, they were at least 2 1/2 hours away in their homes when these girls came in bleeding or septic from incomplete abortions.
One doctor I knew told me that these girls were given a 5mg. tablet of Valium, then the procedure was started. I can’t imagine having my cervix dilated that wide with anything other than a general anesthesia. It has to be horribly painful.
I don’t know what they use now but since those early days they have drugs that cause amnesia for the event, which comes in pretty handy for the abortionists.