For so many decades, abortion has been performed and carried out for over thousands of years. According from the summary gathered from Wikipedia, It was first started for the fear among the “native” Anglo-Saxon women. They believed that the population would be dominated by the children of the incoming immigrants, who had higher birth rates at the time. In the early and late 1800s, many states began legalizing abortion but antiseptics were unfamiliar, hospitals weren’t common, and doctors did not have the knowledge to understand abortion. As years went on from generation to generation, the scientific method began to take over medical practice, technology and it increased the prevention of infection. Abortion procedures …show more content…
Carhart is a court case that won and banned a particular manner of abortion. The way to perform an abortion that was banned was the partial-birth abortion. Partial-birth abortion is a late-term abortion of a fetus that has already died, or is killed before being completely removed from the mother. The ban did not violate the women’s Fifth Amendment rights because it did not place an undue burden to women in search of late term abortions and it only applied to the rarer type of abortion. So far this has been the only case to win against abortion, as well as make another important turning point in the history of abortion. In conclusion, abortion should remain a legal and allow women to have a second chance when their life of the expected mother is in danger, a misguided choice was made, an act of violence or incest occurred, or when the life of a newborn is fated to undergo every day of its life through disfigurement, severe and debilitating handicaps. Even though abortion has positive attributes, it cannot be used as a form of birth control. If abortion is to continues to be legal, it should be regulated and controlled and should only improve the life of the mother and be advantageous to