2007-12-29 09:01:59 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Just because abortion is now a legal option in all 50 states, doesn't mean that it wasn't available at all before 1973. Abortion originally became illegal because it was being done by midwives on poor working-class women in unsanitary conditions where they often died because of infections. That often left a poor working-class widower with several young children to care for, and no wife to help him unless he quickly remarried. Once abortion became a procedure done by a doctor under aseptic conditions, it became very safe, medically. In states where safe, legal abortion was not readily available, women were still dying from illegal abortions. Many people began to think that this was too high a price to pay for a young woman who often just made a momentary mistake in judgment, and it often cost her her life. For married women with several children, it sometimes became a form of birth control, unless abstinence was also an option. The husband just took a mistress for his physical needs, so he would not endanger the life of his beloved wife and the mother of his children. When "the pill" came on the market in the 1950s, much of this changed. Single women often couldn't get the pill, so they frequently died from illegal abortions. Middle class and wealthy women got abortions through being able to pay a doctor to do one in a hospital. Until the legal availability of abortion became universal in all 50 states in 1973, it was often a form of genocide for poor, ignorant, working class women.
This is just a history lesson for those who do not know the history...
2007-12-29 09:35:29 · answer #1 · answered by correrafan 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If abortion were legal in 1946, would George W. Bush have ever been president?
2007-12-29 17:25:09 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Bill Clinton could have been still President because abortion is a choice and his parents have the right decision.
2007-12-29 17:06:52 · answer #3 · answered by FRAGINAL, JTM 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Legal or Ilegal has NEVER stopped those who choose abortion, more women just died as a result of it being illegal, even idiots know this
2007-12-29 17:31:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
You aren't silly enough to actually believe that no one had abortions just because they were illegal? Just like no one drank alcohol during prohibition, right?
If his mother had wanted an abortion, she would have had one.
2007-12-29 17:17:32 · answer #5 · answered by redhairedgirl 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I think Bill mated with an ape and the result was " Bigfoot "
2007-12-29 18:46:47 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋