Women who die from abortion

One of the debate tactics that many of the pro-abortion people say is. "Right to Life, that's a lie! You don't care if women die! We won't go back to the days when thousands of desperate women died every year from abortions performed by quacks in unsafe, unsanitary back-alley butcher shops!"
Which of course we know is false here is a good way to look at this argument.
Summary of the Pro-Life Response.
(1) REFUTATION: "The statement that "thousands of women died before Roe v. Wade" is a bare-faced lie."

(2) REFUTATION: "If pro-lifers don't care about women, why do we run more crisis pregnancy centers than you have abortion mills?"

(3) PARALLELISM: [To the audience] "Let's see who cares about women more. Call up a pro-life crisis pregnancy center and tell them you are unmarried, pregnant, and that your parents have thrown you out of the house. Ask for help with rent money, groceries and utilities. Tell them you need someone to talk to. Then call up an abortion clinic and ask them the same questions. You will see who really cares about women and who is just in it for the money."

(4) PARALLELISM: "Do you support sex-selection abortions directed against preborn women?"
The Primary Argument. Pro-abortionists who insist that thousands of women died annually of illegal abortions before Roe v. Wade have absolutely no statistical backup for their claims — and they usually know it!
Consider the following quote by Dr. Bernard Nathanson, one of the original founders of the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws (later the National Abortion Rights Action League, NARRAL and finally NARAL Pro-Choice America), and the operator of the biggest abortion clinic in the nation for years; "How many deaths were we talking about when abortion was illegal? In NARAL, we always said '5,000 to 10,000 deaths a year.' I confess that I knew the figures were totally false, and I suppose the others did too if they stopped to think of it. But in the 'morality' of our revolution, it was a useful figure, widely accepted, so why go out of our way to correct it with honest statistics?"
The actual Centers for Disease Control (CDC) figures on deaths caused by abortions, both legal and illegal, for those years immediately before and after Roe v. Wade are as follows;
1970: 90 deaths.
1971: 83 deaths.
1972: 90 deaths.
1973: 57 deaths.
1974: 54 deaths.
1975: 49 deaths.
Despite these statistics, pro-abortionists are still lying about the number of women who died of illegal abortions before Roe v. Wade. They insist upon using these apocalyptic numbers because they depend more on feelings than rationality.
One pro-abortionist wrote in 1998 that "Legalization has largely eliminated the estimated 5,000 annual abortion-related deaths in the years before Roe ... Unfortunately, their [19th Century doctors] successful effort to make abortion illegal simply drove it into the back alley, where, according to some estimates, as many as two million abortions a year were performed ..."
In many cases, your pro-abortion debating opponent will insist upon painting gory word pictures of bloody butchers in the back alley. One way to refute this tactic and effectively show audiences how most pre-Roe abortions really took place is to read a quote by an actual illegal abortionist or by a woman who actually had a "tourism abortion."
Ruth Barnett, who had no medical training whatsoever and yet performed over 40,000 illegal abortions in Portland, Oregon without a single fatality, said that "In the movies, they always depict the fallen woman sneaking up a dirty, rickety stairway to a dismal room — or making her way, furtively, into a dark alley that leads to a decrepit shack where some alcoholic doctor or untutored butcher performs the abortion. A clinic such as mine was not that way at all. It was a bright, cheerful place where women's problems were handled quickly, efficiently and with dignity, no matter what the circumstances of the patient."
One Zero Population Growth (ZPG) writer describes a report from a young woman who she referred to an abortionist in Mexico City: "Things were really good down in Mexico City. Everything happens so fast there is almost an aura of fantasy. The clinic (more like a mansion really) is very nice and comfortable. There were about seventeen women there the morning I had the D&C done, plus some in the afternoon. They get you up right after and feed you fruit and drink and cookies right away — helps take your mind off the cramping. Some of us went sightseeing that afternoon. Mexico City is really nice, and I had no trouble at all with any facet of the journey or my stay there. You know, in a way it was almost fun."