My republican family tried to tell me abortion is 10 on the list. Yea, for them. But not for all the young women who are mobilized by women like Taylor Swift. It's going to swing the election
the procedure was made illegal under most circumstances in most states beginning in the mid-1800s. In the 1960s, states began reforming their strict antiabortion laws, so that when the Supreme Court made abortion legal nationwide, legal abortions were already available in 17 states under a range of circumstances beyond those necessary to save a woman's life
Estimates of the number of illegal abortions in the 1950s and 1960s ranged from 200,000 to 1.2 million per year.
Let's call it 1.2 million.
The population of the United States in 1950 was 151,325,798
48 million women 21 and up.
How many of them are of child bearing age? 24 million? 1 out of 24 women were getting abortions back then. Probably same percent a now. 1/4 women have gotten an abortion.