Abortion and Class Bias

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This paper focuses on the abortion laws that existed before the landmark Roe vs. Wade decision, and how these laws particularly restricted the rights of poor women. In the final section, the paper examines how this class bias continues today in laws restricting the rights of poor women to financial aid for the termination of pregnancy.

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"Prior to Roe vs. Wade, abortion had been illegal in the United States. This does not mean, however, that abortions did not occur. As early as the 19th century, many American women were having risky abortions done under potentially dangerous conditions. In fact, it was the death of a woman from a botched abortion that pushed Margaret Sanger to devote her life to the campaign for contraception. In 1955, Planned Parenthood, the organization founded by Sanger, organized a conference called "Abortion in America." The conference discussed the restrictive state laws that continued to ban abortion and set the stage for future challenges to the constitutionality of these laws."

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