Intro Paragraph The subject of abortion has been both a controversial and law shaping topic in America since the early 1920s when the practice was first made illegal. The shift of attitude leading up to the sanctions against the medical procedures was heavily influenced by Victorian social constructs. As illegal abortion practices that endangered women’s health began to emerge after the ban on abortion, a movement towards the reform of anti-abortion law started to occur. Abortion then was first legalized in Colorado in 1967 in cases of rape and incest with many states later expanding on the parameters of legal abortion. However, many states began to create individualized legislature that entailed restrictions on the circumstances that surrounded an abortion. Based upon the Constitution the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against state’s exclusive mandates, but states continued to object to the precedent those rulings set. Although the United States Supreme Court’s verdicts on the issue of abortion were Constitutionally justified, particularly based upon the statements made in the First and Fourteenth Amendments, the continued challenge of federal consensus by state courts sought to undermine the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause. …show more content…
Cornell University’s Legal Information Institute brings additional context to this idea by emphasizing that, “A chief aim of the Constitution as drafted by the Convention was to create a government with enough power to act on a national level, but without so much power that fundamental rights would be at risk”(“Constitutional Law: An Overview”). The interpretation of what the Constitution’s laws entail can drive old legislation to be either enforced or