In today's society there are many topics that are carefully thought
             about to be controversial. However, possibly no coexistent issue causes
             more controversy than abortion. A person can hardly read a newspaper,
             turn on the television, or even have a conversation with a friend without
             the topic coming up one way or another. This subject is the cause of
             many arguments and many violent protests. Best of friends can even
             seem like the worst of enemies when talking about abortion; whether one
             person being strongly for pro-choice, feeling that a woman has the right
             to choose, to the other being pro-life, believing abortion is murder. The
             two sides are very separated and very often refuse to finding a middle
             course with each other. Many people, including myself, have their own
             Abortion is a topic that is nothing new to society. For many, many
             years abortion has existed, it was just not readily available. In earlier years
             each state had the responsibility of deciding when and if abortion was
             legal. In 1970, only a few states legalized abortion. However, in 1973 a
             turning point decision made abortion legal in all states, which was made
             by the court case Roe verses Wade. In this case, the United States
             Supreme Court declared most confining laws against abortion
             unconstitutional because they violated a woman's constitutional right of
             privacy. In addition, it left the decision of a first-trimester abortion to the
             woman and her doctor. States could also have regulations to ensure the
             safely of a second-trimester abortion and could prohibit third-trimester
             abortions. Since then, other restrictions on abortions have been legalized.
             In the 1989 case of Webster verses Reproductive Health Services, the
             Supreme Court ruled that abortions could not be made by public
             employees or funded by the tax payers. Then, in 1990 the state legislature
             had the option to require the notific...