Social contract theory is based on the view that our moral and political obligations depended on a widely held agreement to form our current society. The benefit to living in this type of arrangement is that it protects our most basic rights. One of the drawbacks is that it is up to society as a whole to create some kind of balance between moral responsibility and personal freedom. So for a price (limited freedom) we receive in exchange a government who promises to protect us from people who might want to harm us.
In the given situation of abortion, it seems like social contract theory is the current norm. In Roe v Wade, the government decided that it was in the best interest of society to allow women the right to abort citing their fourteenth
In the given situation of abortion, it seems like social contract theory is the current norm. In Roe v Wade, the government decided that it was in the best interest of society to allow women the right to abort citing their fourteenth