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In 1968 the first full year under the new law there were 5,018 abortions in California. The numbers grew exponentially and stabilized at about 100,000 annually by the 1970s. 99.2% of California women who applied for an abortion were granted one. One out of every three pregnancies was ended by illegal abortion.
Abortion has existed since ancient times, with natural abortifacients being found amongst a wide variety of tribal people and in most written sources. The earliest known records of abortion techniques and general reproductive regulation date as far back as 2700 BC in China, and 1550 BC in Egypt. [6]
1827 – In New York State the first statute to criminalize abortion was enacted which made post-quickening abortions a felony and made pre-quickening abortions a misdemeanor. [11] [12] 1842 – In Japan the Tokugawa shogunate banned induced abortion in Edo. The law did not affect the rest of the country. [13]
Abortion rates changed little between 2003 and 2008, [28] before which they decreased for at least two decades as access to family planning and birth control increased. [29] As of 2018, 37% of the world's women had access to legal abortions without limits as to reason. [30]
Stating that “it is the right of a human being to freely decide on the birth of children,” Yugoslavia’s constitution did not explicitly guarantee abortion, as France's does.
There is also no direct mention of abortion in the Qu'ran, although based on Qur'an 23:12–14, most jurists agree that abortion is acceptable up to 120 days after conception. [ 15 ] While the earliest Vedas have no mention of abortion, later scripture condemns it as one of the vilest of crimes, resulting in loss of caste and thus loss of ...
The new HBO documentary The Janes tells the story of young women who worked underground to help others secure safe abortions before the Supreme Court's landmark 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade ...
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