Planned Parenthood Vs. Casey Case Analysis

One of the most sensitive arguments when it comes to women’s rights is the controversy over the prochoice/prolife debate. Many feel that women should not have the right to abort their unborn child because they believe that they are indeed a living being. One of the reasons people feel this way is because throughout the forty weeks of gestation, the fetus develops a number senses. There are people that also believe that since God created everything and everyone, that He is the only one who has the right to take life away. The government of the United States has taken a stance to what age an embryo/fetus should be protected, accepted a tenure of when sensory developed allows for the states to protect potential life, and defined rights of unborn …show more content…
Dr. Kanwaljeet Anand, a professor of pediatrics, anesthesiology and neurobiology considers fetal pain likely takes place between 18 to 24 months (Bellcuk, 2013). In 2007, The Planned Parenthood vs. Casey case, the standard was reduced to 22 weeks and that the state can defend its interest on the probability of life as long it does not cause unburden or death to the mother. Currently 41 states have outlawed post-viability abortions (Pro-Choice America). As it stands, the right a fetus has to life over the course of the trimesters begins midway to the end of the second trimester in what has been accepted as the fetus’s ability to recognize …show more content…
The debate will always exist on the morality of who has the true oversight of an unborn child; the mother or the government. Religious studies trend toward the option of life is not upon the influence of mankind, but of our maker – the stance of the pro-lifers. The pro-choice believers feel that the fetus is a part of the mother and that the fetus is not guaranteed legal rights (Lazar, 2012). Given these rights at the 24 week mark is where the line is drawn between the Pro-life and Pro-Choice groups. Each group feels that it is an all or nothing cause when it comes to their beliefs. The true discussion now lands on the weeks prior to 24 which an embryo is not guaranteed rights. Science has given us ability to test, listen, and see how an unborn child interacts in the womb much as it would as if brought forth into nature. The rights have been debated socially, morally, and religiously for decades, but in recent years humankind can prove that an unborn child is a human and in the United States that person is guaranteed