The legalization of abortions is still one of the most controversial topics in the United States. After the Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in favor of the Roe side in the case Roe v Wade, on January 22nd, 1973 women have been allowed to legally terminate their pregnancy. Henry Wade, the Dallas County District Attorney believed that women should not be able to ends a fetus’ life unless the woman is in danger. While Roe (a name made-up to protect the identity of the Texan seeking to abort her baby) was wanting to provide a right to women and give them the right to privacy, which now includes abortions, under the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. I do agree with Roe, I agree that women should be able to make the choice that can impact the rest …show more content…
Women risk everything to get abortions. They go to people who have unsanitary equipment that do not know what their doing just so they do not have to endure a pregnancy. Unsafe abortions are one of the leading causes of maternal mortality according to the U.S. National Library of Medicines article ¨Unsafe Abortion: Unnecessary Maternal Mortality¨, with 68,000 women dying from complications annually. That makes one woman that will die every eight minutes from complications in an illegal abortion procedure. These statistics show what issues illegal abortions cause across the world. Legal abortions are quite different, they are one of the most performed medical procedures in the country, which means there have been decades of research poured into the topic making sure it is low risk. As reported by the article ¨5 Things That Are More Lethal Than Legal Abortion” by Michelle Tang from the Huffington Post, when done by a medical professional, abortion has a mortality rate of .0006 percent, meaning only 0.6 women per 100,000 women die from safe abortions. If women don’t have legal ways to get abortions, they may end up in the basement of someone’s house with a coat