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Abortion laws did not appear in U.S. legislation until 1821, and was not deemed illegal by any laws until the 1860s. There was no legal or religious opposition in the U.S. to any woman having an abortion in the 17th and 18th centuries. So what happened? Well, men protecting their profession as physicians to start.