Pro Choice Is No Choice

The fourteenth amendment was adopted into the Constitution on July 9th, 1868 as part of the Reconstruction Amendments. Specifically the Due Process Clause “which prohibits state and local governments from depriving persons of life liberty or property without certain steps being taken to ensure fairness.” This case was decided in 1973 and was a big deal for the women in America. Women now had the right to choose whether they had a baby or not. It is after all their body and life. Prior to abortion being accepted there had been many illegal places to have an abortion which were unsanitary and performed by people who were not physicians. This was dangerous for women. Now a real doctor could perform the procedure and this was a long needed option for the women in America. Federalism took over and the states had to follow the decision of the Supreme Court ruling. There is a problem with the new right to a woman having an abortion and this problem is when an abortion should not be an option because the fetus is a baby and a life. Everything is developed and the third trimester is too late to perform an abortion. Or is it?

The issue of Abortions has been a controversy for years now. There are two main groups for this problem, Pro-Life, and Pro-Choice. Pro-Life supports the human rights of life should be embraced, by religion and ethics. Pro-choice is when someone wants to make this choice without no remorse of human life, but because someone wants no part of it raising one.

When touching the subject of abortion, one must consider that there are two sides battling for control. That is right, abortion has literally turned into a war zone where even the unlikely of individuals do the unthinkable. Each side has their motives and methods for contradicting the other. For instance, there are cases and events that support both sides of this issue.

The ethical dilemma regarding the “Pro-choice Vs. Pro-life can be answered by the Deontological ethical theory. The Deontological theory is also called the duty-based ethics. To explain, Deontological theory states that the righteous of an action or a deed is determined by the principal motivation of doing that particular act ("BBC - Ethics - Introduction to ethics: Duty-based ethics", n.d.). In addition, according to Immanuel Kant, the philosopher who introduced this belief, the justification of an individual’s every action should be based on one’s own reason and mental analysis rather than analyzing it based on traditions (Kurtz & Burr, 2016). Furthermore, Kant’s work titled, “Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Moral, explained that human beings

In the article “Defending Choice, Yet Again: An Unapologetic Defense of Abortion Rights-- and About Time,” written by Lindsay Beyerstein in The American Prospect, abortion and the reason chose to be Pro Choice are addressed. Many people throughout life can overcome the question, is abortion right? The only problem is no one can never give the reason for yes or no. The information provided in this article shows of ways that people should look back and reevaluate their decision on thinking that abortion is wrong. It has been detected that in many places recently, “Abortion access has decreased dramatically in Texas since the state’s restrictive anti-choice law went into effect in 2013” (Beyerstein). Also it is described how, “...Texas

Out of 55 million Americans who live in food insecure homes, about 16.7 million are children. Almost 5.5 million children live in families who have lost their home. In Maryland alone, there are currently 250,000 children going hungry each day (Raphel). As we carry our lives day to day , many children are suffering due to hunger, the loss of a home, abuse, and many other causes. This issue has bothered me for as long as I can remember, I always think to myself, why bring a child into this world if a person is not fully capacitated to provide for that child. I 'd like to address the issue of Pro-Choice, and explain why Pro-Choice is not murder, like many people see it as. Pro-Choice as I determined is agreeing on the issue of abortion, believing that a person has the right to choose whether to have a baby, or abort it.

It states in the decision of Roe v. Wade that, “The constitution does not define “person” in so many words” (http://www.tourolaw.edu/patch/Roe/ 18). The amendment discusses “person” 3 times in it, but it does not indicate that it has any possible pre-natal relevance; this is what made the abortion issue so hard. The state court ruled in favor of Roe, but the verdict was not strong enough to change the arrest of abortion doctors in Texas because the exact part that dealt with the right to privacy could not be decided

Abortion has taken the lives of more than 50 million babies since 1973 (“About Abortion”). The issue of abortion is one of the most common controversial issues in American politics and culture. In modern society, many women that have an unintended pregnancy and they result to abortion without researching other options. Abortion is not a substitute for birth control and this issue should be taken seriously. The individual woman needs to understand that by agreeing to have an abortion she is agreeing to kill an innocent fetus. Abortion rips the unborn child from his or hers right to life. Society needs to let women see through the eyes of the fetus and find alternative ways to raise the baby. Abortion should be

The irony of this justification is that this amendment guarantees that states will not “deprive any person of life,” yet it is being used to take away the lives of the unborn. The court saw the state’s protection of citizen’s liberty as extending to a women’s right to have an abortion. The usage of the 14th amendment

Wade. The court concluded that personal liberty, as the justices defined it in Roe v. Wade, “is founded in the Fourteenth Amendment's concept of personal liberty and restrictions upon state action, as we feel it is, or, as the District Court determined, in the Ninth Amendment’s reservation of rights to the people, is broad enough to encompass a woman’s decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.” The court goes further, to explain, “The Constitution does not define “person” in so many words. Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment contains three references to “person.” The first, in defining “citizens,” speaks of “persons born or naturalized in the United States.” The word also appears both in the Due Process Clause and in the Equal Protection Clause. “Person” is used in other places in the Constitution… But in nearly all these instances, the use of the word is such that it has application only postnatally. None indicates, with any assurance, that it has any possible pre-natal application.” Personal liberty, as defined by the supreme court, is “broad enough to encompass a woman’s decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy”, but it is no broad enough to encompass a baby’s right to life. Life and all other unalienable rights, the justices’ claim, are only protected after birth. This philosophy of law is founded upon man-centered truth. Therefore, the court’s definition of liberty promotes the self interest of the mother with no regard to interest of the

From the political responsibility center by Clifford Stevens stated that in the “English Common Law there is a declaration of the rights of the unborn which would warrant incorporation in the 14th amendment.” THE case that legalized abortion was the Roe v. Wade case in 1973. According to the English Common Law the unborn has all the rights that a born child would have and they have been represented in our constitution in the 9th amendment. All the

Ever since the case of Roe v. Wade in 1973, abortion has been one of the most contentious issues in our society. In some cases people think abortion is murder, in others, it’s reasonable for some cases. Then there are people who use it just to take advantage of it. The legal stance of abortion is a hot topic in today’s society.

Abortion is one of the most disputable issues discussed all over the world today. Several decades ago abortion was considered only a social issue, but now situation has changed and it has also a political and ethical issue attached to it as well. Arguments against pro- choice are typically biased; overlook the fact that the legalization of it benefits the health of women, and deny women the right to do what they want with their bodies. Thus, the main aim of this paper is to discuss the pro-choice view on abortion while analyzing the opinions of other authors in this paper.

Stated in the Constitution is a list of inalienable rights, that no one can take away. Among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Every person has the right to life, no matter what stage of life they are in and regardless if they are inside or outside of the womb (Sproul 182). Abortion should be illegal because it violates a citizen’s basic right. There have been too many deaths since the ruling in 1973, and if something doesn’t change the death toll will only rise. Abortion must become illegal in the United States to ensure the safety of those children who cannot defend or speak for themselves. But the only way to change the outcome of Roe v. Wade is for a new case to be presented to the Supreme Court. If a winning case were to be presented in the near future, it could change the course of America’s history forever and save millions of

Carol Everett once said “The product abortion, is skillfully marketed and sold to the women at a crisis time in her life. She buys the product, finds it defective and wants to return it for a refund, but it is too late.” Abortion is one of the most controversial topics amongst not only politicians but also every human being alive; rather they are pro-choice or pro-life. I am personally in between; I believe that is the choice of that particular woman. We can not as a society decide the choices of others, especially if it is not a written law. But also I believe that it is murder. It was in 1973 when the Roe v Wade case abolished all laws prohibiting abortion.