Abortion View On Abortion

Even to this day, women have not reached maximum equality, but the landmark Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade has helped the women’s equality movement drastically take a step in the right direction. Prior to the case, women had their rights very limited and restricted. Everyone was and still is entitled to their basic rights, however pregnant women were not. Their first, fourth, fifth, ninth, and fourteenth amendment rights were violated and were not addressed until Jane Roe testified in court. The decision made by the court still has a lasting impact even to this day. The landmark Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade was not just a win for Jane Roe, but a win for all women as it helped break the barrier that surrounded women’s equality.

An ethical debate that I have seen play out over the years is abortion. Abortion is the removal of a fertilized egg from the uterus. This falls under issues with religion and womens rights. There are many different debates and point of views people have on this issue. Some agree with this, others do not. I personally agree with abortion. Abortion should be a woman's choice to carry out with or not. Personally I have never had one and wouldn't consider one for myself, but I do know people who have had one. I don't think any less of them. I think that it is a painful decision to make, as well as a responsible one to make. With that being said, abortions should not be treated like birth control."The availability of effective contraceptives, along with medically safe, legally sanctioned abortion as a backup, has allowed sexually active heterosexual women and their partners

As author Lynn Wardle states, “The legal effects of the Roe decision were revolutionary” (Wardle, 1985, 232). Having or performing abortions were no longer legislative matters, or common law issues, but were instead a protected constitutional right. Secondly, these primarily state matters were now national issues to regulate. Last, the social effects of this decision are still being felt forty years later. Twelve and a half million abortions were performed in the first ten years after the decision. By 1978, according to Lynn Wardle, abortion operations were the number one surgery being performed on adults in America. 1980 saw eighteen large-sized cities have abortions exceed live births (Wardle, 1985, 232). Many people during that time and now feel that Roe v. Wade needs to be overturned. Is this the right strategy for the time however? Different strategies of the pro-life movement will be explored here.

Abortion has been a controversial subject throughout history. Although many argue that a woman should be able to do with her body as she sees fit, there are laws in place that affect what she is and is not able to do with regard to pregnancy and abortion. While some view these laws as an infringement on the rights of the pregnant woman, others see them as protections for the unborn child. Since the Supreme Court decision of Roe v. Wade in 1973 where “a nineteen-year concerted assault on Roe in which anti-choice forces fought for its wholesale overruling and the resulting recriminalization of abortion in America, by the narrowest of margins the Supreme Court declined to take that step.” (Wharton & Kolbert, 2013 p. 143) The outcome of this court case paved the way for women in America, before this case abortion was illegal and many women were obtaining abortions illegally in unsafe environments. The ruling of this case is significant because it allowed women to finally obtain abortions in a legal and safe setting, it also allowed states to regulate abortions in the state as long as the regulations do not cause an “undue burden” on women’s abortion rights, this protects the woman’s right to an abortion restricting the ban of abortion altogether, however the state can place restrictions on these processes by passing laws with increased regulations to abortion. (npr)

1) I like how they are not just fighting for abortion. They realize that there are many things that go along with reproductive justice. It includes extremely important issues like access to birth control, STI prevention, pregnancy care, comprehensive sex education, and safe homes. I am sure a lot individuals think that reproductive rights only focus on being able to have an abortion or not. People need to realize it is much more than that. Individuals should and need to have access to resources like contraception and pregnancy care. It is a right that should not be ignored.

In the past years leading to Roe v. Wade, abortion was illegal in most states and highly demoralized throughout the United States. Women would be forced to venture out of the states just to acquire a safe abortion. However, for the women who couldn't afford to travel out of the country, they were compelled to have unsafe illegal abortions. During the 1950s and 1960s, an estimated number of 200,000-1.2 million illegal abortions per year was the result of the laws surrounding women's reproductive rights. The numerous amount of deaths in women sparked a national debate that modified the abortion conversation permanently (Guttmacher).

In the past five years (2011 to 2016) there has been over 230 abortion restrictions enacted by states in the US. In 2016 alone, there has been 1,256 provisions relating to sexual and reproductive health and rights. Of these 1,256, 445 provisions attempted to restrict access to abortion services (Nas, E., Benson Gold, R., Ansari-Thomas, Z., Cappello, O., & Mohammed, L., 2016). Women’s rights as a human and as a US citizen are being violated through these restrictions. There is currently a strong disagreement in the US as to whether abortion is morally wrong or not.

Roe vs Wade opened the door for other women to reconsider government's place in their lives and deciding what they can and cannot do with their bodies. In fact, forty-three years after the court case, fifty-nine million abortions were committed. One in five pregnancies were ending in abortion (nationalreview.com/article). Abortion was suddenly an option, in women’s minds, more than it had ever been before. The feeling of power that comes from being able to dictate your life as well as the life of others is unparalleled, but it comes with a price, as do all power

This article does not take a particular stance on abortion, but it offers very interesting viewpoints about the specifics of abortion. This article states that a mother who wants to have an abortion may be more motivated if she is told that the tissue can be donated for scientific research. Opponents of abortion say that it is still morally wrong, and funding from the public towards Planned Parenthood motivates them to use the money towards abortions.

In this paper I am going to explain my view on why abortion is impermissible in most cases and agree with Judith Thomson. However, I do not agree with her examples and arguments and would like to explain why this contradicts with what she claims in her essay.

Women that are seeking to have abortions have always played on the risk of having health concerns for themselves as a result of the medical operation.. The supreme court has decided to come forth with ways to make abortions safer for them, as well as, the issue of the locations of the clinics. Abortions themselves been around for the past fifty years with the supreme court issuing for the healths of women’s to be more of a solution, as well as, the result of abortions being more of a thing that women would decide to get instead of adoptions for the child.

The issue of abortion remains to be one of the most controversial issues today, mainly because of its premise as an idea – the deliberate termination of a human pregnancy. Obviously, the decision to terminate a human pregnancy is quite shocking to some people, but a recent surge of liberal opinions and social change in the 21st century has seen the rise of abortion and its practices. The most common way of thinking for feminists on abortion is the right over their own body, stating that they should be able to control whether they have a baby or not. This is the most common view point potential mothers use when deciding to have an abortion. My body, my choice.

In America, the argument about whether abortion should be legal or illegal has last for more a century. Abortion was illegal since late 1800s. However, after U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Roe v. Wade in 1973, abortion became legal in America (Shaw & Lee, 2015). Sadly, the controversy about whether abortion should be allowed wasn’t eliminated but intensified at some degree since 1973. For example, strong oppositions against abortion still remain after Supreme Court’s decision. Many states and U.S. Congress have passed several laws and bills to restrict women’s access to abortion service, such as young women must have parental consent to have an abortion, no abortion in second trimester of pregnancy, and no state or federal funds

A woman tenacious on the idea of abortion carries the moral cost of destroying human life. On January 22, 1973 “Roe v. Wade” became known as the case that made abortion legal nationwide in the U.S. It deals with “a woman's Constitutional right to privacy.” A woman under the identity of Jane Roe protested that women should have the choice of having an abortion or not. The case was taken place in Texas and since women were having abortions already, it was cruel to let the women have illegal abortions and putting their lives at risk. After abortion became legal “nearly 53 million legal abortions were performed in the United States – an average of about 1.4 million abortions per year,] one out of five pregnancies (excluding miscarriages) ended in abortion, and each year 1.7% of women aged 15-44 have abortions.” [Ashford 84]

To my mom, a fifty-year old accountant in this society, the topic of abortion seems to provoke her. Making her upset about what other people think. She believes that what she thinks is right and that everyone should think the same way as her. My mom sat on her comfy lounge chair on that Sunday afternoon, reading her kindle as always. Her fuzzy grey pajama pants and light-weight t-shirt that read “No, I’m not a morning person” were still hanging off her soft, warm body in the late afternoon light.