Abortion presents the purpose of terminating a pregnancy which is carried out by removing the fetus from the uterus. The main debate on abortion has always been based on the question of whether the act itself should be prohibited or permitted, according to each individual's opinion. In any case there are ethical concerns that support or judge abortion. As a surgical procedure, abortion has been performed for thousands of years, and laws have changed as the number of abortions has increased. Abortion in the United States has gone through several phases of change, going from completely legal to illegal in many states and to being questioned nationally. I accept as true the belief that a woman should have the right to abortion only under defensible and reasonable personal or health conditions because “abortion is a serious procedure. Amputation is a serious therapy for serious conditions; abortion should be a serious therapy for serious reasons” (O'Brien, 2003). However, what is right for one woman in one state does not necessarily mean it must be the right thing for another woman in a different state. That said, the question arises whether the act of abortion should be left to the state or should the federal government take control? First, the history of abortion begins with the beginning of humanity itself. Around the mid-1800s, many states in the United States began passing laws making abortion an illegal procedure. There were a number of reasonable reasons justifying many of the regulations, such as health problems and poor medical services that put the lives of mothers and unborn children in extreme danger. Furthermore, the fear that the American population would be outnumbered by the middle of the paper. This would obviously require the development of a robust federal office that would define the abortion rules that all states must follow, establishing certain criteria that courts would implement to resolve issues of this kind. In general, personally, I think that our goal should not be about making abortion accessible and permissible at any time and for any reason, or about hammering the process completely, but about recognizing the existence of the life of the unborn child from the moment which fertilization occurs. But in many states “early abortions are acceptable because they do not end the actual existence of something of moral significance (i.e., a 'person'), but rather prevent a potentially significant entity from becoming real, which happens whenever contraceptives are used” (Williams, 2008) and which makes abortion an excellent reason to stop one's vital existence.