Abortion: then the woman had the last word

Opponents of voluntary termination of pregnancy lost their battle in the United States in January 1973. That day, the conservative Texas Administration ruled on Roe versus Wade, allowing a 21-year-old woman pregnant with her third child to have an abortion. The US Supreme Court repealed and modified all federal and state laws that outlawed or restricted abortion, considering it a right, offering constitutional protections to all Americans who demanded it. After this ruling, mortality due to abortion was drastically reduced. In June of last year, that same court, dominated by conservatives, annulled a woman’s federal right to have an abortion, leaving the regulation of such a controversial right in the hands of its 50 states.