In America, during the early to mid nineteenth century, many states began drafting abortions laws that made it illegal to consume harmful poisons that would stimulate an abortion and ultimately outlawed abortion by the turn of the twentieth century unless a practitioner strongly recommended the procedure (Jost). As one can probably guess, the outlaw of abortion did not stop woman for having obtaining one. Instead, woman began to either persuade a doctor to claim that they had a medical reason for the pregnancy to be terminated or went to a back alley to have an illegal and unsafe abortion performed by somebody that was not even certified to perform the procedure. By the middle of the twentieth century, the number of annual illegal abortions performed in the United States was estimated to be around one point two million; while the number of deaths from botched abortions caused many individuals and groups to begin protesting the established abortion laws that would draw national attention to the problem at hand. The first major decision that sparked a rapid debate not only within the three branches of government but the nation’s general public, was Colorado’s alterations to their abortion laws in nineteen sixty-seven that allowed a women more exceptions to have an abortion such as scenarios of rape or incest. These small alterations to their state laws caused a chain reaction and other states began to follow Colorado’s example by nineteen seventies. While the alterations in itself were shocking to the general public, New York’s direct elimination of their abortion law in nineteen seventy caused individuals to start to create the laws within the national courts and led to the Supreme Court's landmark decision for the case Roe vs. Wade. Where the ruling of Roe vs. Wade stated that the right to an abortion was a constitutional liberty; or at least it is during the