Abortion and the 19th Century
On page 23, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito writes, “In this country during the 19th century, the vast majority of the States enacted statutes criminalizing abortion at all stages of pregnancy.” Here, Justice Alito’s words are thoroughly misleading.
In the 19th Century, abortion was criminalized for a wide variety of reasons, but fetal righ...
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