Abortion has always been an extremely debatable issue. There will always seem to be many different concerns towards the public policy aspects of abortion being legal or illegal. In other words, before the decision made in the famous Supreme Court Case of Roe v. Wade, abortion was seen in many eyes as something that was more of a crime and many consider it still to be so. It has been said that most discussions of the modern history of abortion in North America mention the case of Roe vs Wade. By 1970, five states made abortion legal those states were (New York, Washington, Alaska, Hawaii and California). By 1970, in Dallas, Texas, Norma McCorvey found herself pregnant for the third time. She was a single pregnant woman, poor, uneducated, alcoholic and had a drug problem; she gave two of her children up for adoption and wanted an abortion for the for the fetus. She failed to have an abortion, therefore it let to her case being taken up by liberals seeking to legalize abortion. Norma McCorvey name was changed to Jane Roe to disguise her identity, the defendant was the Dallas County district attorney Henry Wade. (https://www.med.uottawa.ca/sim/data/Abortion_e.htm).
On January 22, 1973 the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade, made it a crime to perform an abortion unless a woman’s life was at stake. Roe was challenging a
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Killing a “human being” or a “fellow creature,” is enough. Perhaps the woman was raped. Maybe the baby has been diagnosed with a defect. Or the woman’s health might be at risk. However, one tragedy is not answered with another. We do not remove a rape by killing a child. We can’t cure a baby by taking his life if the mother was rape. And we do not avoid all health issues by avoiding the reality of another human