Partial Birth Abortion: Roe V. Wade

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Mommy I feel him pulling my feet out, yes my shoulders are free almost time for me to see you. Wait mommy I'm stuck, ouch mommy that hurts. Mommy it's getting dark, why are you letting him hurt me? Can you imagine a doctor delivering a baby feet first until everything but the head is out then puncturing the baby's skull to end their life before the head is delivered? This process takes place in what is known as partial birth abortion. Every woman has a right to choose whether or not to go forth with bearing a child. However, this process for lack of a better word is murder and should be banned by federal and state legislation.
For many years us as in women has been fighting for various rights for years that we deserve. For centuries we was …show more content…

A particular care Roe Vs Wade helped change the abortion law “ On January 1973 the united states supreme court, In the famous Roe vs. Wade decision, stated that the ‘’right of privacy...founded in the Fourteenth Amendment's concept of personal liberty...is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.'' Through the first trimester only a pregnant women and her doctor has the legal right to make decisions about an abortion. They were able to restrict second- trimester abortions and protected viable fetus is allowed during the third trimester (History Of Abortions) “. Another case that helped change thing was Gonzales vs. Carhart “In 2003, congress passed the partial-birth abortion ban act the ban was immediately challenged coming before The Supreme court on April 18, 2007, the court decision in Gonzales vs. Carhart case the decision validated extending protection for unborn babies and women by upholding the ban on brutal partial-birth abortions while allowing the exclusion of a health exception.(Partial-birth abortions )”. They finally realized finally realized that were between the doctor and patient and the courts started to respect that to an …show more content…

I understand so women may want to go through the pregnancy but medical situations may make it seem like partial- birth abortions are the only way to survive through the medical situation. I honestly disagrees with partial- birth abortions because no matter the situation a partial birth abortions are done between twenty-two and forty weeks. Medically looking at things these is an eighty percent survival rate for the child meaning even if there is something medically going on to where you cannot continue the pregnancy you can do an emergency labor and the child has a chance to actually

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