ode of Canon Law was just restating that the result of an abortion is excommunication (Roleff, 22). Personally I feel excommunication is not a severe enough punishment.
             A few laws I thought were fair were against abortion and said it was wrong. One major abortion law was passed Britain in 1861. This law made abortion a felony and this was enforced for nearly 100 years (Flanders, 5). Also, Connecticut passed the first abortion statute in the United States in 1821. This statute made it a crime to give a woman a poison to cause her to miscarry (5). In 1830, New York criminalized the performance of abortions after the fetus can be felt moving but exempted those necessary to save the woman's life. Then, in 1845, New York became the first state to place women under threat of prosecution for having an abortion (6).
             In 1859 the American Medical Association passed a resolution condemning abortion and urging states to make it illegal. In time each of the states changed its laws. By the end of the century abortion was a major crime nationwide. All but four state
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