Abortion has been called one of America's "longest running
arguments, the issue that won't go away." I chose to write on abortion
because I am a firm supporter of the pro-choice movement. While I
personally haven't been through it, I have helped to finance some of my
friends. I believe in a woman's right to freedom of choice. I am strongly
against the harsh acts that the pro-life activists have taken against doctors
and associates of abortion clinics. I also see no purpose in repealing the anti
partial-birth abortion bill that President Clinton previously vetoed.
Many States such as Texas, who first enacted their anti-abortion laws
in 1854, have repeatedly denied abortions to pregnant woman unless there
are health risks involved. However, there have been some exceptions such
as the Roe vs. Wade trial. The case was instituted in 1970 by Jane Roe, who
sought judgment on her case against the District Attorney. She claimed that
"the abortion statutes were unconstitutional...and they abridged her rights of
personal privacy." She sued on the grounds of infringement on those rights
promised to her by the First, Fourth, Fifth, Ninth, and Fourteenth
Amendments. And why shouldn't the rights of this woman be protected?
Most judges have said that the court will only protect the rights of a
person's privacy to a certain extent. "At some point the state's interests as
to the protection of the...prenatal life become dominant." Others have
argued that the word "person" as defined in Section I of the Fourteenth
Amendment doesn't include the "unborn."
There are many supporters of the pro-choice movement. The NCAP
(National Coalition for Abortion Providers) is just one group of the abortion
promoters that have banned together for the rights of American women.
This organization was created by people ...