Pro-choice versus pro-life discusses the question of what the right position should be when dealing with the life of an unborn child. From a pro-choice person's perspective, they believe that “individuals have unlimited autonomy over their own reproductive systems, as long as they do not infringe on the independence of others.” Pro-choice advocates also argue that the government should not have the right to decide whether or not a woman should terminate her pregnancy. From their point of view, they believe that what should be legal in the eyes of the government is the use of contraception, celibacy, abstinence and abortion in the first two trimesters of pregnancy. On the pro-life position, they argue that the government has a right. It was unethical and caused many medical problems. One of the first states to ban the practice of abortion was Connecticut in 1821. They wanted many places that performed these practices to limit the use of toxic materials to cause abortions. After this law passed, many states followed suit. The next ruling passed was the Comstock Act in 1873. This law prohibited materials relating to abortion and contraception from being distributed to women. During the Great Depression of the 1930s, the rate of illegal abortions increased. Many women did not want to have the burden of having a child during the country's economic crisis. Due to the fact that many doctors performed dangerous abortions, the number of victims was high. By the 1940s the death toll had fallen. During the 1950s, hospitals around the country began to decide whether doctors should perform abortions using medical abortion boards, permitted by law only if the mother's life was in danger. Mortality rates decreased during this period, due to the introduction of antibiotics in In 1962, a mother, Sherri Finkbine, traveled to Sweden with her husband, after her request for an abortion in the United States was rejected. In 1967, England ended up easing its restrictions on abortion laws that allowed women to undergo the procedure as long as they had written permission from two doctors. This led to many American women traveling to England to have the procedure done. In 1969, groups of young women in Chicago form an underground system, known as Jane. Jane's purpose was to help women find affordable, safe, but illegal abortions here in the United States. After a while, many of these women ended up learning how to perform abortion procedures and performed approximately 12,000 of them from 1969 to 1973. In 1970, the states Alaska, Hawaii, New York, and Washington rescinded their anti-abortion laws that allowed doctors authorized to perform abortions. In order for women to have an abortion in these states, they had to reside in these states for at least approximately thirty days. New York was the only state among these that did not require any source of residency, so many women traveled to this state to have a legal abortion. However, this option was only available to a small number of women who could afford travel expenses and find a place to stay