It was not “widely practiced.” Not even close.
If the child is not a “Constitutional person,” no one is. Because every single human being alive, or who has ever lived, at least since since Adam and Eve, was at one point developing and growing in their mother’s womb.
It’s not very often you will see a FReeper say that they agree with the illogical, immoral, unconstitutional Roe decision.
I agree with the Roe decision only with regard to its saying that the Founders did not intend to create protection for fetal life from conception.
Since abortion prior to quickening was legal in every state at the time, and restrictions were enacted only gradually over the 19th century, that conclusion to me seems inevitable.
I would, however, be all in favor of states restricting or prohibiting abortion entirely, or an amendment that would do so.
My objection is constitutional, not that I approve of abortion.