In 1973, The United States Supreme Court ruled, by a vote of 7:2 in favor of legal abortion in the United States. Since the fateful decision of Roe vs. Wade, Abortion has ended the lives of 50 million Americans. How did we get here? To protect the lives of the innocent, when they are they most vulnerable, Abortion needs to be abolished.
The US ban on abortion began in 1821 when Connecticut made it illegal. Other laws followed until abortion was illegal throughout the nation, and remained so, until the 1970’s, when Norma McCorvey (Jane Roe), sued Henry Wade for enforcing a Texas law prohibiting abortions. McCorvey wanted an abortion for an unplanned pregnancy. The court ruled in favor of McCorvey, and when Wade ignored the decision, both sides appealed, until the case reached the Supreme Court, which on January 22, 1973, ruled in favor of …show more content…
Such a saying is the basis of a genocide. If it would be better, if most people alive had been aborted, except for the few that Karl Kraus seem to get along with, then it is justifiable to end any human life based on “undesirable traits.” We have a tendency to overlook the value of every human life. Throughout history, you can see it, from slavery to the holocaust. Of our generation, the group of human life that is overlooked, to the point where it is considered permissible, even honorable, to aid a woman in ending its life, is the unborn. During the first nine months of its life, when these children need to be protected, instead, they are threatened, and their lives are put on the line, as people call them a burden, or an interruption, or the “sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.” If we continue to allow for their deaths, based on the fear, where will it continue? The elderly? The sick? The suffering or suicidal? If it is acceptable to end human life based on fear of interruption, or fear of a burden, anything is
The US ban on abortion began in 1821 when Connecticut made it illegal. Other laws followed until abortion was illegal throughout the nation, and remained so, until the 1970’s, when Norma McCorvey (Jane Roe), sued Henry Wade for enforcing a Texas law prohibiting abortions. McCorvey wanted an abortion for an unplanned pregnancy. The court ruled in favor of McCorvey, and when Wade ignored the decision, both sides appealed, until the case reached the Supreme Court, which on January 22, 1973, ruled in favor of …show more content…
Such a saying is the basis of a genocide. If it would be better, if most people alive had been aborted, except for the few that Karl Kraus seem to get along with, then it is justifiable to end any human life based on “undesirable traits.” We have a tendency to overlook the value of every human life. Throughout history, you can see it, from slavery to the holocaust. Of our generation, the group of human life that is overlooked, to the point where it is considered permissible, even honorable, to aid a woman in ending its life, is the unborn. During the first nine months of its life, when these children need to be protected, instead, they are threatened, and their lives are put on the line, as people call them a burden, or an interruption, or the “sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.” If we continue to allow for their deaths, based on the fear, where will it continue? The elderly? The sick? The suffering or suicidal? If it is acceptable to end human life based on fear of interruption, or fear of a burden, anything is