Roe V. Wade: The Legalization Of Abortion

Abortion laws began to appear in the 1820s, forbidding abortion after the fourth month of pregnancy. Most abortions had been outlawed by 1900, and even though it had been outlawed illegal abortions were still frequent. Many women had died from illegal abortions in 1960. By 1965 all 50 states banned abortion. Roe V. Wade is the historic supreme court decision that legalized abortion in January 22, 1973. The supreme court held that in earlier months of pregnancy a woman and her doctor could choose to have an abortion without legal restrictions, they chose to base their decision on the right to privacy and on the fourteenth amendment. Ever since the legalization of abortion, 57 million unborn babies have been killed. Compared to other medical procedures abortion is unsafe. For
Women have a 50% chance higher of getting breast cancer than other women. There are several types of unsafe abortions, usually they are done by people without formal training or it either takes place in unhygienic facilities. Some women try to perform self abortions by taking strong substances or drugs, or by inserting foreign objects into their bodies. There is also surgical abortion such as vacuum aspiration or dilation and evacuation and it is usually the only option after 9 weeks. 48% of abortions are done on women for no good reason, there is no health risk or anything else that would require an abortion and that should be illegal. Less than 2% of abortions are for emotional or physical problems. Life begins at conception so a fetus is a living, growing human being. For a long time people thought that fetuses aren't capable of feeling pain but we were wrong, fetuses are capable of feeling pain by 9 weeks. Most abortions are performed by the sixth or twelfth week of pregnancy. Women can abort a baby up to 26 weeks. Abortion is legal murder, A child does not deserve to die because the mother and father were