Legalizing Abortion: A Woman's Right Or Wrong?

Abortions, euthanasia, selective genetics, and capital punishment have in the past century been hot button issues thrust into society because of advanced technology. Today we know more about the processes of the human body and the intricacies of human life enough to where we do things to ourselves never imaginable 100 years ago. These advancements will only continue in the coming years and it seems many are all or nothing on these issues with little in between. But abortion and other such issues used to not be such hot topics for debate. In the 1700s, abortions were common place. The idea that a human being was alive and living inside the mother’s womb was a mystery 300 years ago. Abortions were made illegal, however, when some cited that feeling
Women’s rights of the 1960s swept all across America and the idea of a woman's right to choose came out boldly to defy the “misogynistic society”. By 1973, the world had progressed and was ready to take on the debate of a woman’s right to choose and ultimately the Supreme Court ruled in favor of legalizing abortion in the landmark court case Roe v. Wade. However, with the indispensable amount of technology we have today the fetus is still deemed not protected until the third trimester of the pregnancy even though by around week 3 of conception the baby’s heart begins to beat.
The Church emphatically condemns abortions, euthanasia and other violations against the sanctity of human life. Pope John Paul II’s encyclical Evangelium Vitae defends and reconfirms the Church's view against abortion. The encyclical is issued just 3 years after the historic follow up landmark court case Casey v. Planned Parenthood where again the court upheld women’s right to choose. The encyclical begins with adamantly opposing death of any human or assisting in the death of another human being because human life is sacred to God’s
Soon it seems our court system is thought to rule against Roe v. Wade and with more conservative justices on the Supreme Court is seems possible. Nevertheless, St. Thomas Aquinas each year participates the March for Life in Washington D.C. The March for Life is a peaceful protest walk that every year in January meets to advocate for the baring of abortion in the United States. What makes the March for Life so powerful is its cohesiveness. Thousands of students, teachers, and protesters from around the United States are mobilized on this occasion to show our law makers the great amount of people that oppose abortion. This is in the hopes that further and further laws will be passed against abortion until one day the Supreme Court must decide whether constitutionally abortion is prohibited. In addition to protests and marches, we can sign petitions to our local officials and state government to again actively show our condemnation of abortion. In the United States, euthanasia is mostly illegal with the exception of a few states. Again with this issue there is less worry as to fighting a battle but as maintaining the law against assisted suicide. However, in places like Canada where assisted suicide is more legal and poses a threat to many United States citizens looking to pursue assisted suicide. Therefore, adamantly protesting through marches against euthanasia in our neighbor countries should be