Brady Bialek's List: Abortion facts

• In the United States, abortion laws began to appear in the 1820s, forbidding abortion after the fourth month of pregnancy.
• most abortions in the US had been outlawed by 1900.

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• By 1965, all fifty states banned abortion, with some exceptions which varied by state: to save the life of the mother, in cases of rape or incest, or if the fetus was deformed.
• The Supreme Court in 1973, in the case of Roe v. Wade, declared most existing state abortion laws unconstitutional.

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