The defining beliefs for those who are pro-choice are, “that women should …show more content…
“In Maher v. Roe (432 U.S. 438), the court held that the 14th Amendment does not require a state participating in Medicaid to pay for needy women 's expenses arising out of nontherapeutic (not medically necessary) abortions simply because it pays childbirth expense,” (Alters). This decision brings in yet another complication of medical necessity and the resulting racial discrimination. Prohibition of tax-money abortions is discrimination against underprivileged minority women (Jacobson). Women make less money than men. How can a woman who cannot pay for an abortion be able to afford a child? PRLDEF encourages Medicaid to finance abortion for low-income females, realizing that the dearth of access amongst women to abortion facilities results from not having resources to pay (Jacobson). Women who cannot access birth control is not only a public health issue but is a human rights …show more content…
They use carefully constructed rhetoric, thinking if they declare that a fetus is a life, they make abortion equivalent to murder (Williams). Their other aspect of pathos is targeting the United States grim history of slavery. The anti-choice side compares slavery and abortion, demanding that the Supreme Court limits the rights of specific people by not treating them as fully human (Sullivan). Alas there are vast holes in their argument. There is a difference between a wanted and an unwanted fetus as not all fetuses are the same. People can be thankful for their abortions but mourn a miscarriage. A person who is unwantedly pregnant is only suffering. And as previously stated, fetuses are not alive nor are they fully