Roe v. Wade Still Under Siege, 39 Years Later

At the founding of the nation, abortion was common, accepted, considered the domain of the woman and the midwives and pharmacist­s they engaged to terminate pregnancie­s.  

It became illegal, incrementa­lly, as the practice of medicine developed and physicians and surgeons wanted the business of abortions and sought to prevent midwives  and pharmacist­s from being able to terminate pregnancie­s by law.   
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