By the 1950s, almost every state banned all abortions except when necessary to save the woman’s life.Ī shift began in the 1960s. At the time of the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment in 1868, twenty states (out of thirty-seven) restricted abortion. In 1821, Connecticut adopted a portion of a British law and passed the first US law banning abortion after quickening. ResourcesĪccording to common law tradition carried over in the United States from England, abortion before “quickening,” (or when the fetus’s movements could be felt) was not a crime. One of the Court’s most controversial decisions, the ruling overturned laws banning abortion in at least thirty-one states. In this case, the Court held that the right to privacy included the abortion decision, and that states could not ban the procedure in the first trimester. This month, we spotlight the landmark case Roe v.
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