Coathanger abortions? Probably not.

An interesting statistic:

We’ve had an example of an entire nation in recent years. It was Poland. Under Communist rule in the ’80s, there were consistently over 100,000 abortions registered each year as compared to about 600,000 births. With the establishment of some self-government in 1990, with both the Church and doctors discouraging abortion, the numbers fell to 59,400.

Let’s list the 1990 figures and then look ahead to 1994, the second year after abortion was forbidden except for danger to the life or health of the mother, rape and fetal handicap.

	1990	1994
Total abortions	59,417	782
Women’s deaths connected with pregnancy	90	57
Miscarriages	59,454	49,970
Cases of infanticide	31	17
Births	546,000	482,000

During this time the number of registered abortions declined to 176th of what it had been, and there was not a single death due to illegal abortion. All of these figures are exactly opposite of what International Planned Parenthood people in Poland predicted when the restrictive law was passed.

Furthermore, during this time, there was not a single, verifiable case of the so-called "coathanger" abortion being performed on anybody. The argument is a straw man.