out there to help you prevent a child: condoms, birth control, and a woman could even have her tubes tied. Many times ignorance wins out over simple ways to prevent even having to go through an abortion. Women should use contraceptives, not abortion, to prevent unwanted pregnancies. A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study showed that 19-25% of women who received abortions in 2006 had previously had one or more abortion. If abortion were not available, women would not be so careless yet sometimes ignorance is misjudged as a mistake, and the punishment of having a child through sexual intercourse should never be motherhood. Women's liberties are at risk with an extension of American's renowned way of life.
Whose to say the government should tell a woman how she must treat and use her body. A woman's right to choose abortion is a "fundamental right" recognized by the US Supreme Court in the Jan. 22, 1973 case Roe V. Wade. Roe, a pregnant single woman, brought a class action suit challenging the constitutionality of the Texas abortion laws. These laws made it a crime to obtain or attempt an abortion except on medical advice to save the life of the mother. The Constitutional basis for Roe v. Wade is found in the personal liberty guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment, in the Bill of Rights. The Supreme Court held that: "right of privacy...founded in the Fourteenth Amendment's concept of personal liberty and restrictions on state action...is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her …show more content…
pregnancy." Opponents of legal abortion do not see it as a constitutional right. They argue that the law places many limits on people's freedom of choice, and should do so in the case of abortion. In fact, abortion foes see the law favoring one set of legal rights, the woman's, over another's, the unborn child's. Many also argue the fetus feels pain while undergoing abortion, "If the fetus is beyond 20 weeks of gestation, I would assume that there will be pain caused to the fetus. And I believe it will be severe and excruciating pain" said Kanwaljeet J. S. Professor of Pediatrics, Anesthesiology and Neurobiology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. In my opinion it is a woman's right to have an abortion, it is a woman's decision as an equal citizen and the governments duty to uphold the constitution and rulings of Supreme Court.
For now it is a legal right that a woman can abort the fetus. Yet I support a woman's right, not exactly the right to kill an unborn child. There is a lack of adoptable babies because abortion is legal. Over two million couples are waiting to adopt babies, and only 134,000 US children are available to be adopted as of June 2002. Again, there are always options for women who become pregnant and there are many ways to prevent it yet it is a woman's choice and if she so feels can give birth and give up for adoption. For each woman, each would be her own, and every situation is
different.
• " Roe v. Wade – Case Brief Summary." Lawnix - Law Resources and Legal Information. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Nov. 2012. .
• 1900s, the early, and all 50 states had outlawed abortion. "Abortion ProCon.org." Abortion ProCon.org. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Nov. 2012. .