and defined different levels of state interest in the regulation of abortions in the second and third trimesters of pregnancy. However, Norma McCorvey, or Jane Roe, after fighting so hard for women's right to have an abortion, now opposes the issue, and is trying to have the case overturned. A federal judge has agreed to review the case. Recently, Roe Vs. Wade was upheld in a five to four vote. However, if a supreme justice who is pro-choice looses his position to a person who is pro-life, abortion can easily become illegal, infringing on the rights of women across the nation.
             Opponents of abortion, people who are "pro-life", often conservatives, argue as if the use of widespread abortion is a modern innovation, the bi product of contemporary life. These people disapprove of certain styles of life such as feminism, promiscuity, consumerism, godlessness, permissiveness, individualism, and feel as if making abortions illegal would eradicate the issue, and maybe more than one. Most of which is inaccurate. Historical advertisements seen in The Granger Collection of New York when abortion was a crime had a column written by Leslie J. Reagan. It explains that abortions have been a common practice as well as a part of life for Americans since the beginning of the eighteenth century, both during more than half of our nation's history when it has been legal, and during the slightly less than half when it was not. The first statutes attempting to regulate abortions passed in the 1820s and 1830s, were actually poison-control laws that made the commercial sale of post conception contraceptives illegal, but the act of aborting was not outlawed. These laws had almost no impact on the rate of which a
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