[BenMcr]

Originally Posted by nomadking

and if they knew in the future these issues would be raised, they more than likely would have explicitly banned them right from the start.

Or they already knew it happened and didn't want to ban it

https://www.history.com/topics/women...ore-roe-v-wade

Until the late 19th century, abortion was legal in the United States before “quickening,” the point at which a woman could first feel movements of the fetus, typically around the fourth month of pregnancy.

In the late 1850s, the newly established American Medical Association began calling for the criminalization of abortion, partly in an effort to eliminate doctors’ competitors such as midwives and homeopaths.

Additionally, some nativists, alarmed by the country’s growing population of immigrants, were anti-abortion because they feared declining birth rates among white, American-born, Protestant women.