Change in Abortion

Since the U.S. Supreme Court hearing of Row vs. Wade in 1973, from the book Freakonomics “abortion in the twentieth century was often dangerous and usually expensive. Fewer poor women, therefore, had abortions. They also had less access to birth control.” With more access to birth control, teenagers have began to use the accessibility and options of abortions or the morning after pill without considering the hazards they are enduring on their body. The positive side of women not being denied the choice is “maternity, or additional offspring, may force upon the women a distressful life and future. Psychological harm may imminent. Mental and physical health may be taxed by child care. There is also the distress, for all concerned, associated with the unwanted child, and there is the problem of bringing a child into a family already unable, psychologically and otherwise, to care for it.” According to the book Freakonomics written by economists Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt.