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Christina Dunigan
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Stephanie Herman
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http://www.rightgrrl.comRightgrrl! Abortion Mortality Campaign
March 10, 1999
Today Rightgrrl! calls on the pro-choice community to reassess the results of Roe v. Wade -- the legalization of abortion that promised to make abortion "safe" for women. Abortion may be safER, but it's still not SAFE ENOUGH for women in this country. Because of this, Rightgrrl! today remembers and grieves for women killed by legal abortion since 1973.
Why today?
Today marks an obscure pro-choice holiday: The National Day of Appreciation for Abortion Providers. This date was chosen in remembrance of Dr. David Gunn, killed outside his clinic in Florida by an anti-abortion protestor -- an event that saddens and disgusts the majority of pro-life individuals who condemn violence in the name of life.
If our ideological opponents on abortion believe outrage is due in response to the deaths of nine abortion practitioners -- and we agree -- then why isn't outrage due in response to the hundreds of women killed by legal abortion?
Rightgrrl! is not calling for women to return to the barbaric days of back-alley abortions; we're calling for women to denounce and abandon the procedure altogether -- if not for their unborn children, then for themselves. Abortion is a dangerous, destructive and potentially fatal elective procedure, whether performed legally or illegally.
Abortion is NOT safe. In fact, the risk of death from tampon-induced Toxic Shock Syndrome is lower than the risk of death from legal abortion. Information campaigns have warned us repeatedly about the risk of TSS from tampons -- where are the information campaigns on the risk of death from legal abortion?
Rightgrrl! wants to emphatically remind the women of America -- especially the 47 percent of whom, according to the Center for Gender Equality, are still pro-choice -- that legalization didn't save the life of Erna Fisher, who like Dr. David Gunn, died on the date of March 10. Neither did it save the following eleven women whose deaths occurred in the 26 subsequent months of March since legalization took effect:
Janet Lally Blaum
Died: March 11, 1974
Cause of Death: Legal abortion
Patricia Chacon
Died: March 3, 1984
Cause of Death: Legal abortion
Glenda Davis
Died: March 14, 1989
Cause of Death: Legal abortion
Evelyn Dudley
Died: March 16, 1973
Cause of Death: Legal abortion
Erna Fisher
Died: March 10, 1988
Cause of Death: Legal abortion
Rita McDowell
Died: March 8, 1975
Cause of Death: Legal abortion
G.N.
Died: March 1986
Cause of Death: Legal abortion
Erica Kae Richardson
Died: March 2, 1989
Cause of Death: Legal abortion
Julia Rogers
Died: March 28, 1973
Cause of Death: Legal abortion
Gloria Small
Died: March 7, 1978
Cause of Death: Legal abortion
Ellen Williams
Died: March 5, 1985
Cause of Death: Legal abortion
And these eleven represent only those women for whom names, dates and cause of death have been recorded; who knows how many have suffered and died since abortion became legal? In the month of March alone?
Legal abortion is NOT safe. And to reiterate that point, we are today launching an Abortion Mortality page on the Rightgrrl! website to help women stay informed on the physical risks of abortion: http://www.rightgrrl.com/abortionmortality
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Rightgrrl! is a political website for women, co-founded by Carolyn Gargaro and Stephanie Herman in 1997 to promote non-religious pro-life arguments and conservative political philosophies. Rightgrrl! views and political analysis have been featured on MSNBC; the Jerry Hughes show; KVI's Weissbach; Birmingham, the Show; and in Elinor Burkett's 1998 book, _Right Women: A Journey Through the Heart of Conservative America_.