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Abortion In The 1800s

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Abortions were widely practiced before the 1800s by which most states had banned abortions unless it was to save a woman’s life. However, starting in the year of 1973 they started legalizing abortions which caused a lot of debate throughout the United States if abortions were constitutional or not. Abortions are one of the many things that everyone has a different opinion on. Abortion refers to the termination of a pregnancy by removing or expelling the fetus or embryo from the uterus before it is ready for birth. The two major forms of abortion, spontaneous, which is often referred to as a miscarriage or the purposeful abortion, which is often induced abortion. The term abortion is commonly used to refer to the induced abortion, which has …show more content…

The United States Supreme Court ratified the legalization of abortion, done through the Roe v Wade decision of 1973 in the effort of making abortions safer. In the 1973 case of Roe v. Wade, the U.S Supreme court ruled that the woman has the right to make a choice upon abortion or not. This meant that, the fetus has no rights and is at the essential mercy of the mother. The rights of the state and the fetus cannot overrule the choice that the mother has made. In another case in 1992, Roe in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the US Supreme Court maintained that a woman has the power and the right to commit an abortion. However, abortions are the riskiest procedures and are responsible for over 75 thousand maternal deaths and over 5 million disabilities annually. In the United States alone, between 20 and 30 million abortions are conducted annually, and out of this number, between 10 and 20 million abortions are performed in an unsafe manner. These illegal abortions are conducted in an unsafe manner this arises mainly due to severe complications. This has led to increasing controversy citing the large numbers of abortions that are conducted annually. However, the large numbers of abortions, more so, the illegal abortions continue to be alarming. Despite the introduction of more effective contraceptives, and their widespread availability, more than half of the pregnancies conceived in the United States are considered unplanned. Out of these pregnancies, half are aborted. Thus, abortion remains an issue in the

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