Foreword
There are few topics in today’s political arena more hotly debated than abortion, and for the last 27 years, the Supreme Court has been at the center of the controversy. In its 5-to-4 Roe v. Wade decision in 1973, the Supreme Court held that the Fourteenth Amendment protects a woman’s right to privacy, which includes the right to determine whether or not to terminate a pregnancy prior to the fetus’s viability outside the womb. States cannot make performing an abortion during the first six months a crime, and they can’t pass laws making abortions unnecessarily difficult to obtain.In the years…
