"One of the reasons included fears that the population would be dominated by the children of newly arriving immigrants , whose birth rates were higher than those of `` native `` Anglo-Saxon women . Abortion has been legally performed for thousands of years . It was also legal in the United States from the time the earliest settlers arrived . At the time the Constitution was adopted , abortions before `` quickening `` were openly advertised and commonly performed ."
"You mean before abortion was ever dealt with as a moral issue , so there were no laws against it at all ? But just for the heck of it , would you mind humoring me with any evidence that this paragraph is true at all ? I 'm referring to the stated mindset of the day , the social attitude you outline of the time , and of course the bolded section ."
"Abortion has been legally performed for thousands of years . It was also legal in the United States from the time the earliest settlers arrived"
"You mean before abortion was ever dealt with as a moral issue , so there were no laws against it at all ?"