Facts:
1) States can regulate abortions to a certain extent.
2) States can only allow abortions in certain institutions, if they choose.
3) The Supreme Court does not agree that abortions should be allowed whenever, however, and wherever a woman wants it to happen.
4) Many state laws are "to vague" to be Constitutional.
5) Abortions are relatively safe for the woman.
6) The mortality rates for abortions (for the woman) and normal birth are around the same.
7) Risk continues as pregnancy goes on.
8) Privacy (according to the court) means the right to control one's body.
9) Roe v. Wade was decided by the Burger Court.
10) The 14th amendment was used in deciding this case.
Questions:
1) Why do some say babies are not alive until they are born?
2) Why can privacy be used as a reason to allow abortions?
3) Are most courts against abortion because they really are, or because of precedent?
4) Why is the woman the only part that people are concerned with?
5) If privacy is controlling one's body, then the body can be controlled and not get pregnant. (Excluding sexual abuse)
"Why can privacy be used as a reason to allow abortions?"
ReplyDeleteMany have asked a similar question. The privacy argument revolves around the idea that what you do to your body is private. Even more liberal judges, however, frequently state that the further into a pregnancy one is, the greater the state's interest in regulating/protecting the unborn. So the privacy argument gradually fades the longer that someone is pregnant.