The History Of Abortion

Throughout a number of centuries, women would help one another in aborting their baby to be. It was until the late 1800s, that women across the United States and Europe would provide abortions without it being prohibited. In 1803, Britain passed the first of many antiabortion laws, which they later cracked down on even more. By 1880, abortions were illegal in nearly every state in the U.S., with the exception of the “necessary to save the life of the woman” cases. Despite the laws against abortion, people in society continued to abort babies and they walked away scot-free every time (Abortion). Even before abortion became illegal, many women still died from it. Women who came from money were much more likely to have a safe and successful abortion-

Wade case in 1973, nearly 53 million legal abortions were performed in the United States. This averages to around 1.4 million abortions per year. Most people do not know this, but a woman has a higher risk of dying during childbirth than having an abortion. The chances during birth are 8.8 in 100,000 where as the chances during an abortion are only 0.6 in 100,000 (Should Abortion Be Legal?). Some would still say that it does not matter how much less the chances of death during abortion is, because abortion is simply nothing other than murder. The federal Unborn Victims of Violence Act was enacted “to protect unborn children from assault and murder.” What the FUVA is not seeing is that sometimes the mother of the baby was assaulted. The mother could be getting the abortion because she was a victim of a crime. Within abortion there seems to be a very fine line between the murder of a child and doing what is necessary when the woman was a victim. Although abortion DOES defy the word of God, He also said that he would forgive us for our sins, no matter how bad. This is not saying that anybody and everybody should go around getting abortions, but society needs to understand that God will forgive- God always has an end plan. He says in Jeremiah 1:5 “Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee…” Like it was previously stated, God has a plan in mind. As Christians, however, it would be wrong to

“Young adult women who undergo abortion may be at increased risk for subsequent depression” (Should Abortion Be Legal?). How is this even a point to argue from? Being raped and getting pregnant would cause more emotional and psychological damage than simply having an abortion. Having the baby aborted would likely be the smartest decision seeing as though the baby would only make it harder for the mother everyday. And if the woman decided to have the baby and put he or she up for adoption, then the child would grow up wondering why mommy and daddy didn’t love he/she enough to keep them. The system is already overflowing with children, and adding another one who came from a terrible place with no love involved would make no