Today is the 47th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision, giving women the right to decide what their own bodies should do. from Wikipedia:
Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973),[1] was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States protects a pregnant woman's liberty to choose to have an abortion without excessive government restriction. It struck down many U.S. state and federal abortion laws,[2][3] and prompted an ongoing national debate in the United States about whether and to what extent abortion should be legal, who should decide the legality of abortion, what methods the Supreme Court should use in constitutional adjudication, and what the role of religious and moral views in the political sphere should be. Roe v. Wade reshaped U.S. politics, dividing much of the United States into pro-life and pro-choice camps, while activating grassroots movements on both sides.
I have a personal connection, not to the decision but to abortion.
My mom was born in 1932 in Hagen, Germany. Hers was the first caesarian birth performed in that city. She would have had an older sister but the caesarian procedure wasn’t used then and, to save the life of my grandmother, an abortion had to happen while she was in labor. If it wasn’t for that, my mother, and by extension me, wouldn’t exist today.