Abortion is defined as the deliberate termination of a human pregnancy, most often performed during the first 28 weeks of pregnancy. Even before the Supreme Court's landmark decision in Roe v. Wade in 1973, abortion has been an important and divisive issue in American politics (Jelen 16). Should abortion be legal or illegal? Is abortion a womans personal right to chose or is it murdering an innocent child? The top three reasons women claim to not continue their pregnancies and give birth are: negative impact on the mothers life, financial instability, and relationship problems/unwillingness to be a single mother (Lowen 136). Despite these reasons, I believe that nothing in the world is justification for taking the life of an innocent child, therefore abortion should not be legal. In the 1960s, there was no federal law regulating abortions, and many states had banned the practice entirely, except when the life of the mother was endangered ("Roe v. Wade and Its Impact"). Women's groups argued that illegality led many women to seek black market abortions by unlicensed physicians, or to perform the procedure on themselves ("Roe v. Wade and Its Impact"). Due to the uprising of the womens group over the legalization of abortion, states such as New York and California decided to legalize abortion . With no definitive ruling from the federal government, women's groups sought the opinion of the United States Supreme Court (Roe v. Wade and Its Impact). This is how the court case of Roe vs. Wade came about. Roe v. Wade is the historic Supreme Court decision overturning a Texas interpretation of abortion law and making abortion legal in the United States (Roe v. Wade Fast Facts). Just because women sought out black market abortions didnt mean that abortions should then be made legal. There are many crimes in this world that are illegal that people still seek out and commit in the black market. People will always seek out the black market to do illegal activities or else there would be no such thing as the black market. Abortion should still be illegal because murder is a crime and will always be a crime. Some women say that they are unable to carry through with a pregnancy because they cant afford to support a child. The birth-mother thinks that shes yo