I am old enough to remember when women died from illegal abortions.
As for taking lives, she said, at least 200,000 women in the third world die from illegal abortions every year.
The party's differences over issues from abortion to gun control, affirmative action and the environment are nothing new.
Some proudly showed pictures of children they had save from abortion.
"Our only intention was to save children from abortion," he said.
But the reality is that 250,000 women a year die from unsafe abortions.
In addition, there were scores of issues from abortion to taxes on the ballots.
These weren't taken from abortion or something like that.
In all cases, women should have access to quality services for the management of complications arising from abortion.
There is no evidence of widespread psychological harm from abortion.