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Abortion: Legalized Abortion
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Abortion became legalized in many countries during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Unfortunately the overt inscription of the right to abortion in law (as opposed to something performed, if at all, within the privileged secrecy of the doctor/patient encounter) has provoked a vigorous ‘backlash’, particularly violent in the US. There is little evidence that abortions would be fewer if illegal; only more dangerous, and the availability of the operation more erratic and inequitable.
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Since the Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion in 1973, opponents of abortion have worked continuously to reverse the decision. They have lobbied state and federal officials to place restrictions on women seeking abortions or on individuals providing abortions. They have ... held protests directed at clinics that perform abortions, and, in some cases, have accosted and obstructed patients and health-care providers at such clinics. In May 1994 the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act was enacted, which made it a federal crime to use force, threat of force, or physical obstruction to injure, intimidate, or interfere with reproductive health-care providers and their patients. That same year, in a case known as Madsen v. Women’s Health Center, the Supreme Court upheld the basic right to protest in peaceful, organized demonstrations outside abortion clinics. But the case upheld a Florida law that created a 36 ft (11 m) buffer zone around a clinic to ensure that demonstrations do not prevent access to clinics or disrupt clinic operations.
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The suggestion was brought to widespread attention by a 1999 academic paper, The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime, authored by the economists Steven D. Levitt and John Donohue. They attributed the drop in crime to a reduction in individuals said to have a higher statistical probability of committing crimes: unwanted children, especially those born to mothers who are African-American, impoverished, adolescent, uneducated, and single. The change coincided with what would have been the adolescence, or peak years of potential criminality, of those who had not been born as a result of Roe v. Wade and similar cases. Donohue and Levitt's study ... noted that states which legalized abortion before the rest of the nation experienced the lowering crime rate pattern earlier, and those with higher abortion rates had more pronounced reductions.[35]
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Nepalese and international reproductive rights advocates, including the Center for Reproductive Rights, are applauding King Gyanendra’s pardon of 12 women imprisoned for abortion-related offenses. In addition, the government agreed to commute the sentences of two other women. Although the king has issued similar pardons, this is the largest number of women ever granted amnesty for abortion. The pardon was issued on November 8, 2004 to mark the country’s fifteenth Constitution Day. It comes more than two years after Nepal legalized abortion, which had been prohibited under all circumstances including rape and incest.
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Men are hidden partners in every abortion decision. More than 40 million abortions have occurred in the U.S. alone since abortion was legalized here. Worldwide the estimates are that at least that many abortions occur in a year. The man’s role or lack of role in the decision can create a stream of consequences that may accompany the man through the rest of his life. Because men are told they have no say in the abortion decision--that it is about a woman and her choice--they later struggle with the questions they pose to themselves and the emotions they feel. Men often say "I don't feel entitled to my grief.
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On January 22, 1973 the US Supreme Court legalized abortion on a federal level with its decision in the case of Roe v. Wade. At the time, abortion was regulated by individual states. Roe v. Wade was, and continues to be, the most influential court case that affects laws pertaining to abortion.
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