article_snippet: Still, both cases presented troubled pregnant women who needed help from medical authorities and both cases government.  
article_snippet: Years ago, the president of the anti-choice Susan B. Anthony List made assurances that the specter of women being prosecuted and jailed under anti-choice laws was nothing more than fearmongering by pro-choice activists.  
article_snippet: Those who care about the rights of pregnant women should be deeply concerned.  
article_snippet: So what else might be considered a "deliberate attempt" to terminate one's own pregnancy?  
article_snippet: If a woman knew about the risks of too vigorous exercise and miscarriage but exercised anyway?  
article_snippet: Merely googling abortion-inducing drugs?  
article_snippet: Telling a friend you've thought about having an abortion?
article_snippet: After all, there have always been and will always be women who try to terminate women who try to terminate their pregnancies pregnancies.  
article_snippet: In Texas, which last year enacted some of the most restrictive anti-abortion laws in the nation and shuttered the majority of the nation abortion services clinics, abortion rates have indeed declined but not in proportion to the severity of such measures.  
article_snippet: Researchers suggest that's partly because rates of self-abortion, which then go unreported in the statistics, are increasing.  
article_snippet: And anecdotal evidence suggests this is the case.
article_snippet: Before Roe v. Wade made abortion legal in the United States, according to the Guttmacher Institute, the number of illegal abortions in the 1950s and 1960s ranged from 200,000 to 1.2 million per year.
article_snippet: New anti-choice restrictions and prosecutions won't change the fact that women will sometimes choose to terminate women pregnancies.  
article_snippet: We should all appeal to logic and sanity and compassion and repeal these horrid anti-choice, anti-pregnancy laws.
highlights_snippet: woman says absurd, unjust case makes pregnant women hide, avoid medical attention and put pregnant women lives at even greater risk .