Abortion is an issue that has that has caused much controversy over the last century. From abortionists fighting to legalize birth control contraceptives in the 1920's to abortion finally being legalized to Americans in the 1970's, abortion has always been fought for and against with passionate intensity. People take both fanatical and indifferent sides on the issue. Some say that it's a woman's right to choose others that it is murder, but what is at the root of the issue. Where and when did we as a people overwhelmingly decide that abortion should be legal? I understand that on the surface this seems an easy issue to analyze, after all it is not a secret that abortion was illegal in all fifty states the 1970's, but what sparked the movement to make abortion legal in the United States? Nietzsche would say that it was mankind's desire to get back to primitive nature when "mankind was not yet ashamed of its cruelty, life on earth was more cheerful..." (Nietzsche pg. 67). However, I believe it is different than that; its not necessarily mankind wanting to get back to more simpler by women wanting and needing to gain some control over something they have never has, themselves.
             Before 1970 abortion was illegal everywhere in the United States, in fact it wasn't until the 1950's that birth control pills became legal by the United States Government. However, now in the twenty first century only fifty years sense birth control was legalized, abortion is safe, legal, and more widely accepted than ever. There are a few explanations as to what brought about the changes in America regarding views on abortion. The first explanation that comes to mind is the huge push fore equal rights for women in the nineteen sixties. Sparked by the civil rights movement, the push for women's rights came fast, strong, and hard, and the nation took note. Women soon found themselves with more rights than t...