Many have pondered upon the meaning of abortion. The argument being that every child born should be wanted, and others who believe that every child conceived should be born (Sass vii). This has been a controversial topic for years. Many people want to be able to decide the destiny of others. Everyone in the United States is covered under the United States constitution, and under the 14th Amendment women have been given the choice of abortion. In 1973, Harry A. Blackmun wrote the majority opinion that it's a women's right to have an abortion. Roe v. Wade legalized abortion. Even though these people have been given the right, the case is not closed. Pro-life activists carry a strong argument, and continue to push their beliefs. They feel so strongly about these beliefs that violence has broken out in some known instances. Pro-choice activists, on the other hand, also carry very strong points.
They believe that the child inside them is their property and it's life doesn't be until birth. In 1973, the United States Supreme Court decided that as long as the baby lived in the womb, he or she would be the property of the mother. Because of this decision almost every third baby conceived in America is killed by abortion, over one and a half million babies a year (Willke vii). Many countries have followed our decision on the abortion issue and some of these include Canada, England, and France. Other countries still believe abortion should be illegal, they include Germany, Ireland, and New Zealand. Although many believe that abortion is a women's choice, abortion should be banned because its immoral and life begins at conception.
Abortion is the choice of a women whether or not she want's to receive one. Under the 14th Amendment's "personal liberty"...
Hmm, just a thought for you
I belive everyone has a right to an opinion, so this is mine. i do belive in the choice for early abortion. You talk about life begging at 46 chromosomes so heres a comparison to make you think( this is not that i dont think having a baby is a wonderful thing).A fetus is not, in my eyes a full human being- it is a potential human. A cancer has 46 chromosomes, and due to the mutation that allows it to replicate out of control, it is entirly distinct from its carrier. A cancer, particularly of the sex organs, can also often respond to light heat, cold, and touch, some even jerk away whilst being operated on. If removed from your body, the cancer will die. If a fetus is removed from your body it will die. We have the right to remove this geneticly distinct,feeling cancer, for the same reason we can remove the fetus; we have the choice not to be used as an incubator to somthing that will harm or cause disstress. just a thought that maybe isnt expressed too well, but there you go.
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