Abortion has so many different views on the topic, some positive and some negative. Roe verse Wade played an important role in the abortion decision-making process. Everyone has their own opinions about abortion, but opinion regarding when life begins has had a significant effect on a person's opinions regarding whether they are for or against abortion. Studies on the long-term effects of abortion on women are traumatic and devastating. They can include mental, physical and emotional problems after an abortion. As defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary, abortion is “the termination of a pregnancy after, accompanied by, or closely followed by the death of the embryo or fetus as a spontaneous expulsion of a human fetus during Wade by NEH Hull and Peter Charles Hoffer they state “so before abortion because the object of the law was a topic of everyday life” (Hull & Hoffer 12). This means that any woman who discovered she was pregnant could have an abortion but then suffer the consequences of something going wrong. In the United States approximately eighteen hundred abortions have become illegal, due to the lack of medical education, procedures and surgical interventions because they are very dangerous. As time passed, medical advances were made, but women still had to rely on clandestine abortions that caused harm to thousands of women. Abortion or premature termination of pregnancy can be accidental or intentional. Both types of abortion can be legal or illegal. If the ongoing pregnancy becomes a medical threat, abortion is not illegal. Legal developments and health services are intertwined. The American Medical Association said abortions were wrong and dangerous, which prompted the National Abortion Federation to make abortion a practice “exclusively for doctors” because they could be legally performed to save a woman's life. (National Abortion Federation NAF) It was not until 1973 that abortions were made legal in the United States due to the “Supreme Court decision in Roe vs. Wade that Americans' right to privacy included a woman's right to decide whether to have children, and the right of a woman and her doctor to make that decision without interference from the state" (NAF). In 1965, nearly 300 deaths occurred due to illegal abortions, and of all pregnancy-related complications in New York and California, 20 percent were due to abortions. “If the United States Supreme Court found constitutional grounds to extend the logic of birth control cases that women's bodies belong to women themselves, the concept of choice would become a fundamental value in constitutional law.” (Hull and Hoffer