Roe V. Wade's Arguments Against Abortion

Dave Gardner once said, “A single cell is simply that: a single cell. It’s no more a human than the first brush stroke of a painting is a picture or the first word of a book is a novel.” More and more women are starting to face the dilemma of whether or not to terminate a pregnancy. Everyone has his or her own personal opinion on it, but the choice should be left up to the woman who is pregnant. It is a personal choice; no woman should be forced into mandatory motherhood. Although abortion has become a controversial issue, it should be generally supported because it is not a form of murder, because it is a part of a woman's civil rights, and because it is better than carrying an unwanted child.
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In Roe v. Wade, Roe alleges that she is single and pregnant; that she wishes to terminate her pregnancy under safe procedures; that she is unable to get a "legal" abortion in Texas because her life does not appear to be threatened by the continuation of her pregnancy. She claims that the Texas statutes is unconstitutional and that they truncate her right of personal privacy, protected by the First, Fourth, Fifth, Ninth, and Fourteenth Amendments. Not allowing a woman to abort is in violation of the fourteenth amendment, which protects against state action the right to privacy, including a woman's right to terminate her pregnancy (Pp. 147-164.) Roe additionally recognized "that the word 'person,' as used in the Fourteenth Amendment, does not include the unborn,” In the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, legislatures have promised only that at "twenty weeks after fertilization there is substantial evidence that an unborn child has the physical structures necessary to experience pain," not that there is medical certainty that fetal pain at twenty weeks exists. (NEB. REV. STAT § 28-3,104) Essentially, what this has done is pit a judicially recognized right (a woman's right to an abortion) against an asserted, judicially unrecognized compelling state interest that directly contradicts the constitutionally protected right, on a basis (fetal pain) that does not have concrete medical

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