Abortion
Since 1973 abortion has been an important controversial issue to the United States. The problem begins with should it be a women's choice whether or not to terminate her pregnancy or should it be the Governments choice. The Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court Case of 1973 ruled that state laws that criminalize abortion are unconstitutional. Jane Roe, a single woman who was living in Dallas County, Texas, sued the District Attorney of the county. She believed that the Texas criminal abortion laws were unconstitutional. Roe alleged that she was unmarried and pregnant; that she wished to terminate her pregnancy by an abortion performed by a competent, licensed physician, under safe clinical conditions. The problem was that she was unable to get a "legal" abortion in Texas because her life did not appear to be threatened by her pregnancy; and that she could not afford to travel to another area in order to secure a legal abortion under safe conditions. She claimed that the Texas laws were unconstitutional and that they terminated her right of personal privacy protected by the First, Fourth, Fifth, Ninth, and Fourteenth Amendments. Roe decided to sue on behalf of her self and all other women in the same situation as hers.
On December 7, 1995 the Senate passes its first ban on partial birth abortions. abortion bill, passed in Connecticut, banned the use of poisons to induce abortion. Six years later the Supreme Court empowers states to impose abortion restric!tions in Webster vs. Later in 1997, a growing number of clinics use techniques that allow women to terminate a possible pregnancy just 8-10 days after conception, but before they've missed a menstrual period. Supreme Court recognizes abortion as a "fundamental right" for women in its ruling on Roe vs. Wade, repealing all state laws banning abortion. That same year on October 10, President Clinton vetoes bill to ban partial birth abortions. Some teenagers and woman abuse abortion as a form of birth control. The two main groups that are related to abortion are the Pro Choice group, and the Pro Life group. On November 19, a federal appeals court rules unconstitutional Ohio's ban on certain late-term abortions. The courts concluded that the right of personal privacy includes the abortion decision, but that this right is not unqualified and must be considered against important state interests in regulation. In the 1980's President Reagan's Supreme Court appointees, favor new state restrictions on abortion. Following t!he two states' decisions on legalization, on Jan.
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