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...Instead, laws like these limit access to abortion to only 29 states, according to NARAL Pro-Choice America. With 219 anti-choice bills introduced and 34 enacted in 2002 alone, it is feared that soon enough women will struggle to get access to abortion, much as they did before Roe...
...those of us who cannot recall what life was like before Roe v. Wade, “choice” for women too often meant the “choice” between self-mutilation with a coat hanger, a dark alley “butcher” or a long trip to one of the few sympathetic physicians that secretly provided medically safe abortions. While today women could not imagine a world without contraception and abortion as viable options, this was the world women faced before...
...that in the last half of the 20th century, the greatest advancement in women’s health was not made in an operating room or research laboratory, but instead in the Supreme Court in 1972. As U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun said, “Roe was a necessary step for the full emancipation of women.” Today two-thirds of Americans are in favor of open access to abortions and 43 percent of American women will have had a medically safe abortion by age 45 according to a 2002 survey by the Kaiser Family...
...battle for their rights has just begun. With the passage of the partial-birth abortion ban, now is the time to realize a danger that the Bush administration poses to the woman’s right to control her own body. Without action, the protections guaranteed under Roe could soon become obsolete...
Thirty years after Roe v. Wade and companion case Doe v. Bolton, Norma McCorvey and Sandra Cano—“Jane Roe” and “Jane Doe” respectively—have returned to court: they are challenging their own eponymous decisions. After working in an abortion clinic for several years after Roe, McCorvey came to the realization that what she was doing was wrong and now speaks publicly against the case for which she is well known. Cano never wanted an abortion and says that Doe was motivated by the ambitions...