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Andryszewski, T. (1996). //Abortion: Rights, Options, and Choices// (p. 109).


 * 1) Since abortions have been legalized, many clinics that perform abortions have been the targets of acts of violence.
 * 2) Though abortions were banned in the United States until 1973, thousands of abortions were still taking place.
 * 3) John Salvi III was one man who killed two people in a Massachusetts abortion clinic.
 * 4) In America in the 1700 and early 1800s, abortions were allowed to be performed – that is, if the fetus was not yet at the stage where it begins kicking.
 * 5) A group of educated physicians knew these beliefs about abortion were ignorant and they insisted on creating anti-abortion laws.
 * 6) The Comstock law, which was passed in 1873, prohibited abortion and birth control.
 * 7) After this new law, there was a rise in deaths in women from performing unsafe abortions.
 * 8) Margaret Sanger established the first birth control clinic in the United States in 1916.
 * 9) From 1900 through the 1960s, abortion was prevalent in the United States, illegal abortion being the most prevalent.
 * 10) Mostly, it was the poorer, lower-class women who got the worst treatment from doctors concerning leniency in performing abortions.
 * 11) Sherri Finkbine, who had taken a drug that caused her baby to be severely deformed, was not allowed to get an abortion in the U.S. and had to go to Sweden to obtain an abortion.
 * 12) Illegal abortions can be unsafe because the abortion provider is untrained, and also because they could be simply in the business for money and not for the women.
 * 13) Also, illegal abortion providers, even if their intentions are pure, also don't have proper medications, anesthesia, medical equipment, or hospital availability.
 * 14) In the 1960s, there was a movement for the legalization of abortion, as it seemed inhumane to force a woman to raise a child under intolerant circumstances.
 * 15) After Roe v. Wade, only three states – New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and Louisiana – prohibited abortion under any and all circumstances.