Word: legalizes
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...states have now had enough experience, extending over a year or more, to make some conclusions possible. While the number of legal abortions has increased, the increase has not been dramatic, as opponents of liberalization had forecast. No city in a state with a liberalized law has become "the abortion capital of the U.S." In fact, the increase in numbers has been too small even to make an appreciable dent in the number of illegal, dangerously septic abortions, as some proponents of the laws had hoped they would. While the experience of these states offers useful guidelines for other legislatures...
...twelve-month preceding adoption of the 1967 act there were 51 legal, reported abortions in the state. In the following year there were 407, or 11.6 abortions per 1,000 live births. That compares with about 660 legal abortions per 1,000 live births in Japan (where modern contraceptives such as the pill are illegal), and 85 per 1,000 in Sweden. Colorado's law does not spell out residence requirements, but legal formalities ensure that abortions after rape or incest will be performed only on residents, and Colorado General Hospital has decided not to abort out-of-state patients...
...great majority of patients were referred to Denver physicians," Taylor notes. "The hospitals in small-and medium-sized towns are performing very few therapeutic abortions. This trend will probably continue for some time because of the anonymity that a large city provides." In no case did the new legal procedure take long enough to make a safe abortion impossible, and there were no maternal deaths...
...first place, say California health officials, it takes time for people to learn when abortions are permitted and how to go about applying for them. Secondly, many women seeking a quick end to an unwanted pregnancy are not interested in the elaborate procedures required for a legal solution. Another factor is cost. Specialists have to be called in to confirm the medical justification advanced, and their fees, added to the usual cost of even minor surgery and a short stay in the hospital, can run the total bill up to $2,000. Many women who can afford such costs prefer...
...higher legal authority at Fort Devens, the head of the judge advocate court, will automatically review the case, according to Kroll's lawyer, Norman S. Zalkind. "Considering precedents, there is a good possibility this review might lighten the sentence," Zalkind said...