Which country first legalized abortion?

The first country that legalized abortion is Mexico. This happened in the year 1931. According to reports, the different cases of rape is one of the main reasons why this was approved.

There are a lot of women who have gotten pregnant, even though they do not want it. This has made it possible for women to have their pregnancies terminated. There is no reason why their lives should become severely affected, especially after getting raped.

If the baby would be given to the father because this is the fruit of his actions, then this might stop men from raping women, but at that time,abortionis the most obvious choice.

In Western countries, abortion was largely restricted until the early 20th century. In 1920, Lenin legalized abortion in the entire Soviet Union. In 1931, Abortion was legalized in Mexico for the first time in the case of rape. The first western country to legalize abortion for medical purposes was Iceland around 1935.

The legalization of abortion grew partly out of a growing concern for population control. This was inspired by the ideas of Thomas Malthus who believed that as the population increased, there would be a point where increases in food production would not match population growth leading to starvation, wars, and social breakdown.

Population control, was as a result, seen as away to prevent catastrophe. It was also promoted by eugenicists who wanted to control who was born ad contributing to the gene pool. Abortion was still illegal or frowned upon in most countries until after the mid-20th century.

Abortion spent centuries as neither legal nor illegal in many countries. In the 1930’s many countries began to set abortion legalization policy to regulate the procedure.

Mexico was the first country to legalize abortion in case of rape. This was done in 1931. In the later years, Poland, Turkey, Denmark, Iceland and Sweden legalized abortion in special cases (pregnancy as a result of rape, threat to mother’s health and foetal malformation). Iceland was the first western country to create modern abortion legalization policy based on the conditions listed above.

Before this time, the Soviet Union had legalized abortion, on demand, more than a decade earlier but the Soviet law didn’t last due to series of regime change.