According to Planned Parenthood, "91.1 percent of abortions are being performed within 13 weeks and 65.5 percent within the first 8 weeks. This making death and complications lower. Later gestational abortions of 20 weeks or more have fallen to 1.2 percent" (Parenthood, 2014). The later in gestational age of a pregnancy are usually due the mother's health and if there are issues with the fetus. After seeing the benefits, why should we put women back in harm's way?.
Besides the astounding facts of a women's health being affected, economically and socially the U.S has seen huge evidence of the importance of Roe v Wade. These effects have been seen by the numbers in our population, birthrates and social norms.
Since the decision was made Roe v Wade has been a form a population control. Even though some states were liberalizing abortion laws in the 60's they huge turning point was seen from the 1980's to the 1990's. According to the Ethics and Public Policy Center, "The number of abortions went from 744,000 to 1,599,000 and then peaked in 1990 at 1,608,000 to which then declined in 1996." (Muller, 2000) What does this mean? Well if the abortions had not been performed the population as of 1999 would be 14 percent more than 275 million. As a human we also have to see that one abortion eliminates a fetuses children, grandchildren and so on this affects the future population as well (Muller, 2000). Economically since Roe v Wade has had a huge impact on women and poverty. According to Heidi Williams of the Center of American Progress, Woman who were in a low income level or poverty level bore the brunt of unplanned pregnancies. Even though birth control pills were made available in the 1960's a doctor could not prescribe them unmarried women (Williams, 2014). After Roe v Wade it forced a change in the workforce regarding women and their economic status. It allowed women to contribute to the economic stability of their families (Williams, 2014).
