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Pro-choice is the belief that women should have the right to make a decision about their own body, and not have someone telling them they can’t. Abortion is one of the most talked about subjects on women’s rights. People are either pro-choice which is for or pro-life which is against abortion. In 1973 there was a huge topic that caused a lot of controversy and is still talked about today. This case was brought to the United States Supreme Court and is what made abortion legal for women. This case is most commonly known as Roe v. Wade. There are many protests that have happened and still happen because of the decision to make abortion legal. After abortion was made legal ten thousand people gathered and protested that abortion is wrong in New York’s Central Park. There has been more than 300 acts of extreme violence towards providers of abortion. In 1973, there was a group of people standing outside Planned Parenthood yelling, “Whores” amongst other things. Another protest that has been going on since the 1973 case Roe v. Wade is “March for Life”, and attracts up to 500,000 people who are pro-life. Despite all the protest and rallies, abortion still remains legal and the fight against abortion is not over. Woman should have the option to have an abortion because freedom of choice, population control, and medical risk. Women have the right to an abortion because they have a right to privacy under the Due Process Clause of the four-tenth Amendment. With this, women have the

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