With a Republican president, Republican-led Congress and conservative Supreme Court that only narrowly has a majority to support Roe vs. Wade, abortion rights may be in jeopardy.No one actually likes abortion. Some people support letting women make up their own minds about whether to have them; others don’t. Whether a fetus is a human being is an issue people have been debating for years. But during the first six months or so of a pregnancy, the fetus cannot survive outside a woman’s body. During the final trimester, abortions are almost always performed only when the woman’s life is at risk. Though he says he wants to cut down on abortions in America, Bush supports requiring parental consent for minors to receive birth-control pills. Making it more difficult for teen girls to get one of the most effective means of birth control will only increase the rate of abortions in the United States. No matter what, women will get abortions. But depending on what Bush, Congress and the Supreme Court do, these abortions will be either safe and clean or dangerous and illegal.If abortion were outlawed, the number of women who die giving themselves abortions will skyrocket. We’ve all heard the stories: coat hangers, back alleys, dirty scalpels. Do we really want to go back to those days?Restricting abortions won’t save fetuses; it will just hurt women.editorialboard: Carrie Tett, Greg Jerrett, Katie Goldsmith, Andrea Hauser and Jocelyn Marcus