Roe V. Wade Supreme Court Case Study

The definition of consent is to give permission to allow something to happen or an agreement to do something. Who has the right to give that consent is an issue that continues to happen, even over the case of abortion. Across the country today, there are millions of babies being aborted each year that were conceived from rape, incest, and unprotected sexual intercourse. It was the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court case, that the court decided the right to privacy under the due process clause of the fourteenth amendment extends to a woman’s decision to have an abortion. The court’s ruling to this day has been one of the most controversial decisions made by the Supreme Court. It has created a national debate amongst many issues, such as whether or not abortion should be legal, to what extent should it be legal, and who decides the legality of abortion, and what role should religion and moral values play in the politics of this subject. Abortions should be available to all women no matter how the baby was conceived. The decision to have an abortion or not should be dealt with as a personal matter because each case is different. The Roman …show more content…
The problem with the unborn child is that it can’t consent to its own abortion because it isn’t alive yet. The only two left to speak on behalf of the baby are the parents. Currently, our government says that the father of the child has no rights over the unborn baby, which would mean that the father cannot consent to an abortion. The father shouldn’t be able to consent to an abortion because the baby isn’t part of their body, especially in cases involving rape or incest. The mother should be the only one that can consent to an abortion. The father does have its right to an opinion, whether or not the mother decided to listen to that opinion is her