Abortion: A Woman's Right
A Woman's Right Sometime in the past quarter of a century in the battle for and against abortion the real issue has been lost. The focus has become too religious for a country that has separated church and state. Therefore, the focus to be arguing upon is not based on the rights and wrongs of abortion. Though I will argue that women should before sex take in consideration, what the law and as a citizen she values. American laws so far have held tight to American values but when do a woman's end and a child's begin? Responsible adults having "safe sex" should in theory be able and ready to have and raise a child. Absolutely this is not the case, some women are not ready nor intend to ever be mothers. Though there are many contraceptives
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Whose to say the government should tell a woman how she must treat and use her body. A woman's right to choose abortion is a "fundamental right" recognized by the US Supreme Court in the Jan. 22, 1973 case Roe V. Wade. Roe, a pregnant single woman, brought a class action suit challenging the constitutionality of the Texas abortion laws. These laws made it a crime to obtain or attempt an abortion except on medical advice to save the life of the mother. The Constitutional basis for Roe v. Wade is found in the personal liberty guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment, in the Bill of Rights. The Supreme Court held that: "right of privacy...founded in the Fourteenth Amendment's concept of personal liberty and restrictions on state action...is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her …show more content…
For now it is a legal right that a woman can abort the fetus. Yet I support a woman's right, not exactly the right to kill an unborn child. There is a lack of adoptable babies because abortion is legal. Over two million couples are waiting to adopt babies, and only 134,000 US children are available to be adopted as of June 2002. Again, there are always options for women who become pregnant and there are many ways to prevent it yet it is a woman's choice and if she so feels can give birth and give up for adoption. For each woman, each would be her own, and every situation is
Whose to say the government should tell a woman how she must treat and use her body. A woman's right to choose abortion is a "fundamental right" recognized by the US Supreme Court in the Jan. 22, 1973 case Roe V. Wade. Roe, a pregnant single woman, brought a class action suit challenging the constitutionality of the Texas abortion laws. These laws made it a crime to obtain or attempt an abortion except on medical advice to save the life of the mother. The Constitutional basis for Roe v. Wade is found in the personal liberty guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment, in the Bill of Rights. The Supreme Court held that: "right of privacy...founded in the Fourteenth Amendment's concept of personal liberty and restrictions on state action...is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her …show more content…
For now it is a legal right that a woman can abort the fetus. Yet I support a woman's right, not exactly the right to kill an unborn child. There is a lack of adoptable babies because abortion is legal. Over two million couples are waiting to adopt babies, and only 134,000 US children are available to be adopted as of June 2002. Again, there are always options for women who become pregnant and there are many ways to prevent it yet it is a woman's choice and if she so feels can give birth and give up for adoption. For each woman, each would be her own, and every situation is