Mark Ruffalo once said, “There was no mistake in us making abortion legal and available on demand. That was what we call progress. Just like it was no mistake that we abolished institutional racism in this country around the same time.” We have came a long way since the 1973 Roe vs. Wade court case which ruled abortions legal, but there is still a lot of nationwide discourse on the subject. America as a country made the vote to legalize abortion more than four decades ago for many reasons such as overpopulation, the mother's well being, and for the fact that the decision should be left to woman carrying the child. The subject has resurfaced with the recent election results and some Americans are trying to revoke a woman’s rights to her own
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Wade court case which ruled in favor of pro-choice, but America’s battles with the right to abort actually started in the 1800s. In 1856, Dr. Horatio Storer set up a national drive through the American Medical Association to make all abortions legal. After this point abortions stayed banned until the early 1920s when the birth control movement was on the rise. In 1963 the society for human abortion opened against the law, giving women information on abortions. By 1967 Colorado is the first state to liberate their abortion laws. Coming closer to Roe vs. Wade, in the year 1970 Alaska, Hawaii, New York, and Washington repeal bans on abortion after viability, making abortion available at the request of a woman and her doctor up to 24 weeks (Whittington) After the infamous Roe vs. Wade, there has been many other court cases come up trying to overturn it, which have all been turned down up to now. It it detrimental that Americans continue to fight for this important right given to women, it is their own private decision to make as the courts have shown throughout history and should remain that …show more content…
A woman who lacks the ability to manage her fertility lacks the ability to manage her own life, and banning abortion would be a direct violation of a woman’s privacy. The main reason most people want abortion banned is because they think a fetus is a mortal and it is religiously as well as morally wrong to kill what they believe to be living. Not all people in America are christians, though. Take away that aspect of it and there is no real argument against abortion. Morality is about the wellbeing of real live beings who can feel pleasure and pain, preference and intention, who at their most complex can live in relation to other beings, exchange emotion and delight in their own existence. With that being said, real people count more than potential or hypothetical people (Tarico).
Abortion has came a long way in the past 200 years, and is still being defended to this very day. There are so many reasons why it was ruled legal in the United States including the fact it reduces our risk of overpopulation, sometimes abortions are needed to ensure the well being and survival of the mother, and for the simple fact that it is a private matter of moral opinion rather than a solid yes or no that should be decided by biased men in a courtroom. Abortion is a safe and legal way to terminate unwanted pregnancies and should be protected
Wade court case which ruled in favor of pro-choice, but America’s battles with the right to abort actually started in the 1800s. In 1856, Dr. Horatio Storer set up a national drive through the American Medical Association to make all abortions legal. After this point abortions stayed banned until the early 1920s when the birth control movement was on the rise. In 1963 the society for human abortion opened against the law, giving women information on abortions. By 1967 Colorado is the first state to liberate their abortion laws. Coming closer to Roe vs. Wade, in the year 1970 Alaska, Hawaii, New York, and Washington repeal bans on abortion after viability, making abortion available at the request of a woman and her doctor up to 24 weeks (Whittington) After the infamous Roe vs. Wade, there has been many other court cases come up trying to overturn it, which have all been turned down up to now. It it detrimental that Americans continue to fight for this important right given to women, it is their own private decision to make as the courts have shown throughout history and should remain that …show more content…
A woman who lacks the ability to manage her fertility lacks the ability to manage her own life, and banning abortion would be a direct violation of a woman’s privacy. The main reason most people want abortion banned is because they think a fetus is a mortal and it is religiously as well as morally wrong to kill what they believe to be living. Not all people in America are christians, though. Take away that aspect of it and there is no real argument against abortion. Morality is about the wellbeing of real live beings who can feel pleasure and pain, preference and intention, who at their most complex can live in relation to other beings, exchange emotion and delight in their own existence. With that being said, real people count more than potential or hypothetical people (Tarico).
Abortion has came a long way in the past 200 years, and is still being defended to this very day. There are so many reasons why it was ruled legal in the United States including the fact it reduces our risk of overpopulation, sometimes abortions are needed to ensure the well being and survival of the mother, and for the simple fact that it is a private matter of moral opinion rather than a solid yes or no that should be decided by biased men in a courtroom. Abortion is a safe and legal way to terminate unwanted pregnancies and should be protected