Msgr. Paul V. Garrity When Roe v. Wade happened in 1973, women were given the legal right to make decisions about their pregnancies. Before this, there were no reliable statistics about abortions simply because they were illegal. Their illegality, however, did not prevent them from happening. Their previous illegal status prevents us, down to the present, from knowing how … [Read more...] about Garrity: Rethinking the abortion debate