Texas's restrictive new abortion law eerily echoes the witch hunts of centuries ago

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : Abortion became legal until a woman felt the first fetal movement, a moment known as quickening.
52% : Nineteen years later, the court reaffirmed the basic right to an abortion in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, adding that defining "one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and the mystery of life" is at the heart of freedom and had to be protected.
51% : The court extended the right to choose abortion until the fetus was viable outside of the womb in the third trimester, and providers were free to practice medicine to help them.
49% : But as the birthrate of White Protestant middle-class women plummeted by the late 19th century, abortion came under new scrutiny.
47% : The Comstock Law set the stage for two very different legal landscapes regarding abortion in Europe vs. the United States.
44% : To prevent that from happening, Horatio Robinson Storer, a physician, launched a campaign to criminalize abortion for the first time in the United States.
42% : In the 1480s, the idea that abortion was an affront to God's plan, but should be stopped in civil court proceedings, began to take hold through the work of German inquisitor Heirich Kramer.
37% : Yet the hysteria was unrelated to abortion.
34% : Kramer faced skepticism from theologians who argued that abortion was a spiritual issue, not one for consideration by secular judges.

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