Roe V Wade Research Paper
The fact that I have to even write this essay is sad. Abortion should NOT be legal for MANY reasons, but I’m only going to list three. Abortion should be illegal because the decision in Roe V Wade was wrong, life begins at birth, and every life is worth living
The decision in Roe V Wade was very wrong. Norma McCorvey is now a pro-life activist after being the plaintiff in Roe V Wade, which was a lawsuit stating that individual state laws banning abortion are unconstitutional. In June 1969, Norma L. McCorvey discovered she was pregnant with her third child. She returned to Dallas, Texas, where friends advised her to falsely state that she had been raped in order to obtain a legal abortion (with the understanding that Texas law allowed abortion in cases of rape and incest). …show more content…
However, this scheme failed because there was no police report documenting the alleged rape. She attempted to obtain an illegal abortion, but found that the unauthorized facility had been closed down by the police. Eventually, she was referred to attorneys Linda Coffee and Sarah Weddington. In 1970, Linda Coffee and Sarah Weddington filed suit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas on behalf of McCorvey (under the alias Jane Roe).
The defendant in the case was Dallas County District Attorney Henry Wade, who represented the State of Texas. McCorvey was no longer claiming her pregnancy was a result of rape, and later acknowledged that she had lied about having been raped. Rape is not mentioned in the judicial opinions in the case. On June 17, 1970, a three-judge panel of the District Court, consisting of Northern District of Texas Judges Sarah T. Hughes, William McLaughlin Taylor, Jr. and Judge Irving Loeb Goldberg, unanimously declared the Texas law unconstitutional, finding that it violated the right to privacy found in the Ninth Amendment.
Life begins at birth. At the moment when the sperm hits the egg, a new entity comes into existence. Zygote is the name of the first cell formed at conception, the earliest developmental stage of the human embryo, followed by the Morula and Blastocyst stages. Is it human? Is it alive? Is it just a cell or is it an actual organism, a being? These are logical questions. The zygote is composed of human DNA and other human molecules, so its nature is undeniably human and not
some other species. The new human zygote has a genetic composition that is absolutely unique from itself, different from what any other human that has ever existed, including his mother (disproving the claim that what is involved in abortion is “a woman and her body”. This DNA includes a complete “design”, guiding not only early development but even hereditary attributes that will appear in childhood and adulthood, from hair and eye color to personality traits. It is also quite clear that the earliest human embryo is biologically alive. It fulfills the four criteria needed to establish biological life: metabolism, growth, reaction to stimuli, and reproduction. Finally, is the human zygote merely a new kind of cell or is it a human organism; that is, a human being? Scientists define an organism as a complex structure of interdependent elements constituted to carry on the activities of life by separately-functioning but mutually dependant organs. The human zygote meets this definition with ease. Once formed, it initiates a complex sequence of events to ready it for continued development and growth. The zygote acts immediately and decisively to initiate a program of development that will, if uninterrupted by accident, disease, or external intervention, proceed seamlessly through formation of the definitive body, birth, childhood, adolescence, maturity, and aging, ending with death. This coordinated behavior is the very hallmark of an organism. By contrast, while a mere collection of human cells may carry on the activities of cellular life, it will not exhibit coordinated interactions directed towards a higher level of organization. Thus, the scientific evidence is quite plain: at the moment of fusion of human sperm and egg, a new entity comes into existence which is distinctly human, alive, and an individual organism- a living, and fully human being.
Every life is worth living. Why wouldn’t they? More than 40% of all women will end a pregnancy by abortion at some time in their reproductive lives. While women of every social class seek abortions, the typical woman who ends her pregnancy is either young, white, unmarried, poor, or over the age of 40. The most common reasons women consider abortion are: Birth control failure. Over half of all women who have an abortion used the birth control method during the month they became pregnant, inability to support or care for a child, to end an unwanted pregnancy, to prevent the birth of a child with birth defects or severe medical problems. Such defects are often unknown until routine second-trimester tests are done, pregnancy resulting from rape or incest, and physical or mental conditions that endanger the woman's health if the pregnancy is continued.
Women can choose to have an abortion due to gender of child, or because their child may have a disability or even down's syndrome. Is that child's life less important than mine or yours? No, their life is as equally important as anyone else's.
The decision in Roe V Wade was very wrong. Norma McCorvey is now a pro-life activist after being the plaintiff in Roe V Wade, which was a lawsuit stating that individual state laws banning abortion are unconstitutional. In June 1969, Norma L. McCorvey discovered she was pregnant with her third child. She returned to Dallas, Texas, where friends advised her to falsely state that she had been raped in order to obtain a legal abortion (with the understanding that Texas law allowed abortion in cases of rape and incest). …show more content…
However, this scheme failed because there was no police report documenting the alleged rape. She attempted to obtain an illegal abortion, but found that the unauthorized facility had been closed down by the police. Eventually, she was referred to attorneys Linda Coffee and Sarah Weddington. In 1970, Linda Coffee and Sarah Weddington filed suit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas on behalf of McCorvey (under the alias Jane Roe).
The defendant in the case was Dallas County District Attorney Henry Wade, who represented the State of Texas. McCorvey was no longer claiming her pregnancy was a result of rape, and later acknowledged that she had lied about having been raped. Rape is not mentioned in the judicial opinions in the case. On June 17, 1970, a three-judge panel of the District Court, consisting of Northern District of Texas Judges Sarah T. Hughes, William McLaughlin Taylor, Jr. and Judge Irving Loeb Goldberg, unanimously declared the Texas law unconstitutional, finding that it violated the right to privacy found in the Ninth Amendment.
Life begins at birth. At the moment when the sperm hits the egg, a new entity comes into existence. Zygote is the name of the first cell formed at conception, the earliest developmental stage of the human embryo, followed by the Morula and Blastocyst stages. Is it human? Is it alive? Is it just a cell or is it an actual organism, a being? These are logical questions. The zygote is composed of human DNA and other human molecules, so its nature is undeniably human and not
some other species. The new human zygote has a genetic composition that is absolutely unique from itself, different from what any other human that has ever existed, including his mother (disproving the claim that what is involved in abortion is “a woman and her body”. This DNA includes a complete “design”, guiding not only early development but even hereditary attributes that will appear in childhood and adulthood, from hair and eye color to personality traits. It is also quite clear that the earliest human embryo is biologically alive. It fulfills the four criteria needed to establish biological life: metabolism, growth, reaction to stimuli, and reproduction. Finally, is the human zygote merely a new kind of cell or is it a human organism; that is, a human being? Scientists define an organism as a complex structure of interdependent elements constituted to carry on the activities of life by separately-functioning but mutually dependant organs. The human zygote meets this definition with ease. Once formed, it initiates a complex sequence of events to ready it for continued development and growth. The zygote acts immediately and decisively to initiate a program of development that will, if uninterrupted by accident, disease, or external intervention, proceed seamlessly through formation of the definitive body, birth, childhood, adolescence, maturity, and aging, ending with death. This coordinated behavior is the very hallmark of an organism. By contrast, while a mere collection of human cells may carry on the activities of cellular life, it will not exhibit coordinated interactions directed towards a higher level of organization. Thus, the scientific evidence is quite plain: at the moment of fusion of human sperm and egg, a new entity comes into existence which is distinctly human, alive, and an individual organism- a living, and fully human being.
Every life is worth living. Why wouldn’t they? More than 40% of all women will end a pregnancy by abortion at some time in their reproductive lives. While women of every social class seek abortions, the typical woman who ends her pregnancy is either young, white, unmarried, poor, or over the age of 40. The most common reasons women consider abortion are: Birth control failure. Over half of all women who have an abortion used the birth control method during the month they became pregnant, inability to support or care for a child, to end an unwanted pregnancy, to prevent the birth of a child with birth defects or severe medical problems. Such defects are often unknown until routine second-trimester tests are done, pregnancy resulting from rape or incest, and physical or mental conditions that endanger the woman's health if the pregnancy is continued.
Women can choose to have an abortion due to gender of child, or because their child may have a disability or even down's syndrome. Is that child's life less important than mine or yours? No, their life is as equally important as anyone else's.