Source is mostly from Wiki.
History of Legalised Abortion in the West and Russia – the Slippery Slope Illustrated
1920 – Soviet Union: Lenin legalized all abortions in the Soviet Union.
1927 – Germany: Weimar Republic reduced the maximum penalty for abortion, and in 1927, legalised it by court decision, in cases of grave danger to the life of the mother.
1935 - Nazi Germany amended its eugenics law, Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring, to promote abortion for women who have congenital and genetic disorders, or whose unborn fetuses have such hereditary disorders.
1935 – Iceland: Iceland became the first Western country to legalize therapeutic abortion under limited circumstances.
1936 – Soviet Union: Joseph Stalin reversed Lenin's legalization of abortion in the Soviet Union to increase population growth.
1936 – Nazi Germany: Heinrich Himmler, Chief of the SS, creates the "Reich Central Office for the Combating of Homosexuality and Abortion". Himmler hoped to reverse a decline in the "Aryan" birthrate which he attributed to homosexuality among men and abortion among German women. Abortion is still forced upon members of parts of society that were considered undesirable.
1938 – United Kingdom: Dr. Aleck Bourne aborted the pregnancy of a young girl who had been raped by soldiers. Bourne was acquitted after turning himself into authorities. The legal precedent of allowing abortion in order to avoid mental or physical damage was picked up by the Commonwealth of Nations.
1938 – Sweden: Abortion legalized on a limited basis in Sweden for medical, humanitarian, or eugenical grounds. serious threat to the woman's life, if she had been impregnanted by rape, or if there was a considerable chance that any serious condition might be inherited by her child. The law was later augmented in 1946 to include socio-medical grounds and again in 1963 to include the risk of serious fetal damage. The 1974 Abortion Act states that until the end of the eighteenth week of the pregnancy the choice of an abortion is entirely up to the woman, for any reason whatsoever.
1967 – United Kingdom: Abortion Act legalized abortion in the United Kingdom except in Northern Ireland. In the U.S., California and Colorado became the first U.S. states to legalize abortion.
1969 – Canada: began to allow abortion for selective reasons. Abortion remains in the criminal code.
1969 – Australia: The ruling in the Victorian case of R. v. Davidson defined for the first time which abortions are lawful in Australia.
1973–1980 – Europe: France (1975), West Germany (1976), New Zealand (1977), Italy (1978), and the Netherlands (1980) legalized abortion in limited circumstances.
1970 - New York State: legalized abortion.
1973 – United States: The U.S. Supreme Court, in Roe v. Wade, declared all the individual state bans on abortion during the first and second trimesters to be unconstitutional. The Court also legalized abortion in the third trimester when a woman's doctor believes the abortion is necessary for her physical or mental health.
1978 – United Kingdom: Louise Brown is born, promoted by the IVF industry as the “first test-tube baby.” In fact, Louise was the only child to be conceived by the in vitro procedure who survived to birth of nearly 80 previous attempts.
1988 – Canada: The Supreme Court of Canada ruled in Morgentaler v. Her Majesty the Queen, that the abortion law is unconstitutional, a breach of the woman's right to security of the person under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The Court called upon Parliament to draft a new law regulating abortion. Canada, alone in the developed world, has no law regarding abortion.
1990 – United Kingdom: The Abortion Act in the UK was amended so that abortion is legal only up to 24 weeks, rather than 28, except in unusual cases.
1991 – United Kingdom: Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act, establishes Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA).
1993 – Canada: Canada’s Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies recommends the creation of a matching regulatory body for Canada.
2004 – Canada: Liberal government passes An Act Respecting Assisted Human Reproduction and Related Research, legalising and regulating ivf etc.
1991-2007 – United Kingdom: HFEA issues series of permissions for experiments on live human test subjects, at the embryonic stage and often created in the lab for the purpose, or donated from “spare” embryos left over from in vitro fertilisation. These include cloning; eugenic screening and destruction of embryos for potential defects; the creation of embryos for sibling tissue match treatments; the combining of human and animal DNA to creat “hybrid” or “chimeric” embryos.
May 2007 – United Kingdom: Labour government introduces draft legislation that codifies the HFEA’s individual permissions.
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