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When did abortion become legal in the United States

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The ''Roe'' decision gave women autonomy over their pregnancies during the first trimester, and allowed states to regulate or restrict abortions during the second and third trimester. As a result, abortion statutes in the remanding states were struck down and determined to be unconstitutional.
 
== Recommended Reading ==
Linda Gordon, ''The Moral Property of Women: A History of Birth Control Politics in America''. Urbana: The University of Illinois Press, 2007.
 
James C. Mohr, ''Abortion in America: The Origins and Evolution of National Policy''. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979.
 
Leslie J. Reagan, ''When Abortion was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973''. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.
 
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