Abortion
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...Drug Administration in the United States in 2000. It is used...circumstances. In England and in the United States in the 19th cent...20th cent. By the 1970s, abortion had been legalized in most...countries and Japan; in the United States, under a 1973 Supreme...ruling (see Roe v. Wade ), abortions are permitted during the...controversial issue in the United States, however, and in 1977 Congress...specified instances. Several state legislatures passed restrictive...