How to Respond to Two Common Pro-Choice Arguments

    Claim: “Abortion is safer today than in the back alley before Roe v Wade!”

   Have you heard this before? Check out our conversation with Josiah, a student we met.  He agrees that abortion is wrong, but then says, “I feel like it’s getting better.  I mean, like I heard that they used to just do it at the back of salons…just pull it out with a coat hanger. But now they don’t really do that anymore.”  How would you respond?

   Watch the video "Should Abortions Be Safe?" at YouTube.com/CreatedEqualFilms.

   The “back alley” rhetoric is often effective, but it’s not rooted in facts.  Did you know…

• Former abortionist Bernard Nathanson confessed that he and others blatantly lied to inflate statistics on women dying in the “back alley.”

• Mary Calderone, medical director of Planned Parenthood in the 1960s, claimed that prior to Roe v Wade, 90% of illegal abortions were performed by doctors in good standing in their communities,

• And according to the US Bureau of Vital Statistics, 39 women died from illegal abortions in 1972, the year before Roe v Wade?

Quick Conversation Tips: What about the back alley?

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