Roe v. Wade
Safe and legal abortions before Roe v. Wade

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dGHMrCovG4?rel=0

Dr. Mildred Hanson explains how she and other U.S. doctors found a way around the law to provide abortions to women. Her first person account explains how they would coach women into pretending to be suicidal because of the baby, so that the law would permit them to terminate the pregnancy. In 1973, Roe v. Wade, was a decision passed by the United States Supreme Court regarding abortion. The Court ruled 7–2 that a right to privacy under the due process clause of the 14th Amendment extended to a woman's decision to have an abortion. Women could choose abortion in earlier months of pregnancy without legal restriction, and with restrictions in later months, based on that right to privacy.

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