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no, they didn't

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Yes, the safety is about the same.

three years surrounding the rulings and estimated that the number of illegal procedures in the country plummeted from around 130,000 to 17,000 between 1972 and 1974. The number of deaths associated with illegal abortion decreased from 39 to five in that same time period.

https://www.guttmacher.org/perspectives50/abortion-and-after-legalization

https://www.hli.org/resources/risks-of-abortion/