Abortion
Abortion, which has been legal for over 23 years, is against the Constitution and the Supreme Court case that legalized it should be overturned. In 1971 a pregnant single woman (Roe) brought a class action suit challenging the constitutionality of the Texas criminal abortion laws, which prohibited having or attempting an abortion except on medical advice for the purpose of saving the mother's life. This lawsuit was labeled Roe v. Wade. The Wade of Roe v. Wade was Henry Wade, one of the attorneys who argued the case for Texas. Roe v. Wade was first argued in the Supreme Court on December 13, 1971. Roe v. Wade was reargued October 11, 1972 and on January 22, 1973 Justice Blackmun delivered the opinion of the Court: "The [Supreme] Court declares the statutes void as vague and overbroadly infringing [the] plaintiff's ninth and fourteenth amendment rights." From then on an average of 4,100 abortions have been legally performed in this country daily. Abortion is defined by a decidedly objective source (the dictionary) as "a fatally premature expulsion of a fetus from the womb" (Webster 2). Abortions are performed in a variety of ways. The procedure depends on how long the woman has been pregnant and where she decides to have
The pro-abortion community has for years clouded the issue of when life begins, but what the scientific community says is the rule by which everyone has to go by on issues like this one. Someone who supports abortion would have you believe that many if not most abortions are because the woman was a victim of rape or incest. Wade cited constitutional principles for the legality of abortion. " (Knights of Columbus 2) But, in 1989, the AMA called abortion a "fundamental right" that was to be found "free of state interference" in the absence of compelling justification. On this record, it can scarcely be said that any deeply rooted tradition of relatively unrestricted abortion in our history supported the classification of the right to abortion as "fundamental" under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth amendment. Wade should be overturned and abortion be once again be made illegal. The baby is delivered, usually with an anesthetic that lessens the woman's pain to that of natural childbirth. The saline method is used after the sixteenth week. The same would be true if there was no wreck and she stopped on the way at a McDonald's that was being robbed and got shot and as a result lost the child. " The use of these amendments in the ruling of the court says that abortion is a "fundamental" right which cannot be denied by the state without due process of the law. From Chief Justice of the Supreme Court William Rehnquist's essay on the Court's ruling: "At the time of the adoption of the fourteenth Amendment, statutory prohibitions or restrictions on abortion were commonplace; in 1868, at least 28 of the then-37 States and 8 Territories had statutes banning or limiting abortion. Ninety percent are performed during the first trimester.
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