Personal Opinion Essay: Abortion and The Roe v. Wade decision

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What if someone killed a mere baby, a person who hasn’t had a chance to truly live? What if a stranger, a complete outsider who is just flexing their “power muscles” decided to make pregnancies illegal? In these extenuating circumstances the Government oversteps their boundaries by determining whether or not a medical operation can occur. In the case of Roe v. Wade, these boundaries were overstepped, but it needs to be determined, whether or not to keep the ruling that allows abortions. The Roe v. Wade decision should be upheld because abortion saves women’s lives, it would violate women’s lives to outlaw abortion, and it also decreases the amount of dangerous “back alley” abortions.

Throughout history, abortion has been justified in the US. In the 1800s, abortion was justified in situations where the mother’s life was threatened (“Abortion”). Abortion groups have been formed.; for example,The Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion, which founded by Rev. Howard Moody in New York City to help find safe abortions and abortion facilities for women when abortions were outlawed. The Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion is now known as The Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice(RCRC). RCRC had 1,400 members within its first year of operation across the nation (Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice).

There has also been a significant amount of controversy over a case that is known as Roe v Wade, which was when the right to attain birth control was tested in 1965 as well as 1972 setting the stage for abortion because the Supreme Court decided that abortion should be allowed to be carried out by means of Privacy. The abortion case of Roe v. Wade was pleed by an attorney who had an ill...

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... abortion rights by 2011." (Gold and Nash).

The Roe v. Wade decision should be upheld because abortion saves women’s lives, it would violate women’s lives to outlaw abortion, and because it decreases the amount of dangerous “back alley” abortions.The main reason pro-lifers are against abortion is because it violates their religion. With this in mind, the United States is a country that separates religion from state, which in many cases is the sole purpose of why some people are feel so strongly against abortion. People against abortion do not keep in mind the harmful effects keeping the baby will have on the mother as well as the child in some cases. Overall, Abortion should continue to be legal, mainly because nobody tells a man what to do with his body, abortions could possibly save the mother’s life, and it decreases the amount of deadly, unsanitary abortions.

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