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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetics_and_abortion

In the 1800s abortions were disapproved by societies therefore women would resort to, quite dangerous, self-abortions. This meant a woman would go to their physician and complain about other symptoms or illnesses that would require them to take a medicine that could help cure them but put their pregnancy in jeopardy. This would prompt their physicians to give them the ability to terminate their pregnancy. In the mid-to-late 1800s states began passing laws that made abortion illegal. The motivations for anti-abortion laws varied from state to state. One of the reasons included fears that the population would be dominated by the children of newly arriving immigrants, whose birth rates were higher than those of “native” Anglo-Saxon women. The criminalization of abortion did not reduce the number of women who wanted abortions, as it is estimated of illegal abortions, ranged as high as 1.2 million per year. Between the 1880s and 1973, many thousands of women were harmed as a result of illegal abortion. In 1910, the American Medical Association stated that abortion was both immoral and dangerous. As a result, all states but one decided to criminalize abortion except when necessary, such as to save a woman's life. Therefore what was deemed legal abortions was transformed into a “physicians-only” practice.

Later, the first major rulings in the US Supreme court happened in 1965, Griswold v. Connecticut. The court ruled that states had no right to ban forms of contraceptives for married couples. This started the expansion of reproductive rights for years to come to the United States. During the 1960s public outrage at abortion laws increased as the movement to decriminalize abortion became one of the fastest-growing movements in American history. In 1973, a case Roe vs. Wade, in Texas pinned down abortion rights in the US. The case challenged a Texas law that prohibited all abortion, but lifesaving abortions. The court ruled that a state could not interfere with an abortion decision unless they had a compelling reason for regulation. The case of Roe Vs Wade made it possible and more accessible for women to get safe and legal abortions from professional medical practitioners. This led to a significant decrease in pregnancy-related injury and death.