Before 1973, abortion was illegal in America unless the woman's
health was threatened. In March of 1970, Jane Roe, a single
woman, instituted this federal action against the District
Attorney of the country. The original idea was that women who
truly did not want a baby should not have to have it. __1__
Since pregnacy may be a blessed act when planned or wanted, __2__
forced pregnacy, like any force bodily invasion, is anathema to
American values and traditions. As legalized abortion has become
an everyday part of American life, a different side to it has
emerged out. __3__
Where women once were aborting because they did not want a
child, the reasons being given now were becoming very different. __4__
Abortion has turned into something that women are being coerced
from boyfriends'/husbands' unwilling to be fathers, out of fear __5__
of the financial pressure, out of the panic from losing their
jobs, out of panic from having to quit the school, or becoming __6__
homeless, or out of fear of their parents kicking them out into
the street.
Abrotion for these reasons can lead to problems which develop
when a woman is unable to get round her emotional responses __7__
from the trauma of an abortion. There are women who abort and
do so completely of her own free will. These women have no __8__
regrets, no remorse, but are happy they had this choice availble. __9__
But a growing number of women are speaking up about how abortion
effected them adversely. __10__