Gonna admit I had a hard time making it through that paper.
Now, I am not a stickler for cites from this century, as such, but that cite was nearly 60 years old.
It’s pretty terrible, especially parts like “it is hardly ever necessary today
to consider the life of a mother as threat-ened by a pregnancy.”
There is no cite on your 90%, just that it was “and even more important, the conference estimated that 90 per cent of all illegal abortions are presently being done by physicians” an estimate of “the conference”. Not sure what that means.
But in any case, it does talk about how doctors would break or bend the rules because they disagreed with the draconian laws, or at least refer women to doctors who would perform these illegal procedures.
If you are expecting any sort of similar thing, with your 90% of abortions being performed by doctors, you will need to make sure that your abortion laws aren’t too strict.
This was the case, because even though it was technically illegal, the consequences were not too great, and enforcement was pretty lax (you almost had to turn yourself in).
If you are looking to change the abortion laws so that they are only nominally in effect, then some of these illegal abortions will be continue to be done safely.
If you actually pass strict laws that are enforced, and punish physicians harshly, I don’t think you are going to see that sort of number, instead you are going to see a raising number of self administered abortions.
Your 2-8% (as estimated by the conference) will rise dramatically.
If you pass the types of laws that you seem to be in favor of, it’ll be pretty close to 100%
Advances in medical care to which she would not avail herself, as if she were allowed to avail herself of that medical care, she would have just had the abortion done by advanced medical care in the first place.
Will there be any sanction against a woman seeking medical treatment for a botched abortion? If not, you are going to see alot of women poison or otherwise traumatize themselves to induce a miscarriage, then show up at the hospital for treatment. If so, you are going to see exactly the same thing, except you will be needing to send these women to jail after they are stable, and you will be finding dead women who were afraid to go to the hospital. I am not sure which of those scenarios is preferable to you.
Personally, I would avoid the situation by allowing a woman to make her own medical decisions without interference from the govt, but then, I’m a liberal, not a small govt conservative like yourself.