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'Roe vs Wade' legalized abortion in US 35 years ago by Fanny CarrierSun Jan 20, 1:12 AM ET Thirty-five years ago on Tuesday the US Supreme Court handed down a decision in the Roe versus Wade case, legalizing abortion and introducing some of the world's least restrictive abortion laws. On January 22, 1973, the nine Supreme Court justices voted seven to two that a law in Texas that banned abortion, except to save a woman's life, was unconstitutional under the right to personal privacy. It was a bombshell decision that galvanized religious opposition into action, and set the scene for...

Tens of thousands of people are expected to descend on Washington today for the first major abortion-rights march in more than a decade. With chants and placards, they will warn that Roe v. Wade is at risk. Most Americans have heard this alarm so many times that they've tuned it out. They can't imagine going back to a world in which women's medical records are introduced at trials of doctors to determine whether the abortions they performed were necessary. Advertisement But that world is already upon us. For months, in federal courts in several states, abortion has literally been on...