I don't think our American founding fathers knew what abortion was Abortion has been around a LONG time. I'm sure they knew what it was, but they didn't institute a constititional right to it, a 'right' that didn't exist until invented nearly 200 years later.
"I don't think our American founding fathers knew what abortion was"
"Abortion has been around a LONG time. I'm sure they knew what it was, but they didn't institute a constititional right to it, a 'right' that didn't exist until invented nearly 200 years later."
The founding Fathers were well aware that abortion, under common law, was illegal after quickening, which was when the mother could feel the baby move. Unlike today, this was really the only way a woman knew something was alive inside of her. In effect, it was illegal to kill a living fetus. This eventually was codified in the law of every state.
Roe vs Wade was a revolutionary change by a body that does not have revolutionary authority.