Was legalizing abortion morally the right thing to do by the U.S. Supreme Court in the Roe v Wade decision in 1973?
Legalizing abortion without question was the right thing for the U.S. Supreme Court to do. Women need to have control of their bodies in order to gain their independence, freedom, and ability to truly be equal to men. Women die from back ally and botched abortion every minute of each and every day around the world. That is, a total of over 70000 women die every year from illegal abortions. When abortion was illegal in the U.S., there was much pain and suffering requiring hundreds of thousands of hospital admissions and thousands of maternal deaths as women will seek out back alley abortions in order to not have an unwanted or unintended child.
