Allan Katz and Danae Columbus: Despite emotional tolls, abortion must remain a woman’s right

Every reader of this column probably knows a woman who has used abortion as a powerful tool to help guide her body and her life choices.  National statistics consistently show that three out of 10 women have had an abortion — that’s all women, young , old, black, white, Asian and Hispanic. We’re not sure any woman makes the decision to terminate a pregnancy easily. But it is a decision that millions of women around the world make each year and often pay the consequences emotionally for decades to come. Still, there are no medical, ethical or moral reasons strong enough to ban abortions entirely. Today, on the 42nd anniversary of the passage of Roe v. Wade, the debate over abortion continues at dinner tables across America and in the halls of Congress.