Hamdan v. Rumsfeld

In today’s societies around the world, there is currently two factions of the highly controversial topic of abortion and whether it should be allowed or outlawed. These two factions on opposite sides are pro-choice and pro-life. Pro-choice supporters in essence believes a woman has the right to an abortion if she decides to do so. On the other hand, pro-life supporters believe the fetus is its own human being and has the right to live, thus an abortion cannot be performed on the woman. Judith…

In his novel Unwind, Neal Shusterman offers a unique perspective on the possible outcome of our society’s disagreement on ethical issues, specifically directed towards the debate on abortion. Shusterman portrays the aftermath of a second civil war, in which the process of unwinding, a term disguising the harsh reality of dismembering children, is born. This form of retroactive abortion proved to be the only measure that would restore peace to the nation, however flawed and drastic it seemed to…

Of the many controversies that have been discussed, the argument of whether abortion should be legal continues to be one of the main issues in the United States. The focal point of this argument centers around whether or not a woman’s right to choose is more important than the right to life of a baby. There are two types of abortions: spontaneous abortions and induced abortions. A spontaneous abortion is the same thing as having a miscarriage, which occurs naturally and most of the time against…

Hugh V. McLachlan tackles this question in his piece “Bodies, Rights, and Abortion” where he contends the idea of not owning one’s body simply because others say that you cannot. McLachlan mentions : “that talk of ownership of one’s person rather than of one’s body is absurd. A person cannot be distinguished here from what the person is being said to own,” hence displaying how unethical and enological it is for women in America to be expected to adhere to the laws that are not made to benefit…

Margaret Sanger : Women against the Law During 1873 The Comstock act was in effect and its mindset was alike to the Victorian era. These ideals were based around the ideas that a woman should not be able to do anything vulgar or anything that would show a women being attracted to anything sexual and anything that would oppose to a woman conceiving a child. Margaret Sanger was one of the first women in American history to go against the past feminine ideals. Sanger’s main motivation to go…

not abortifacients. Hobby Lobby should not have been able to declare a statement as a fact, because they believe something to be true and that it burdens their religion, when the statement in fact can be disproved by science. References Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores. (n.d.). Oyez. Retrieved December 9, 2017, from https://www.oyez.org/cases/2013/13-354 Carmen. (2014, July 1). “The Hobby Lobby Decision: A Summary & Explanation” Patheos. Retrieved from http://www.patheos.com/blogs/lovejoyfemin…

Henry V by William Shakespeare is the fourth part of a serious that deals with the rise of the house of Lancaster. Henry V treats King Henry as a man who has grown up to be an adept king unwavering in determination to claim the French throne contrary to how he was portrayed as a reckless teenager in earlier plays. The play itself shows events between the battles of Agincourt a battle that was a major turning point in the hundred-year war. The play has since become synonymous to how audiences…

people oppose abortion because it can damage the long-term physical and emotional health of women who have an abortion. Trump has promised to take sweeping actions against abortion, including appointing Supreme Court justices who would overturn Roe v. Wade. Reinstating and expanding the global gag rule is the first indication of how serious he…

doubt that there are many ways for a woman to terminate a pregnancy, but the question in everyone’s minds is, “Should this even be legal?” The abortion debate has been going on for quite some time now. Federal action began taking place when the Roe v. Wade lawsuit began in 1970, when a woman wanted to have an abortion in Texas, where it was illegal at the time. Afterwards, she later decided…

consent is an issue that continues to happen, even over the case of abortion. Across the country today, there are millions of babies being aborted each year that were conceived from rape, incest, and unprotected sexual intercourse. It was the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court case, that the court decided the right to privacy under the due process clause of the fourteenth amendment extends to a woman’s decision to have an abortion. The court’s ruling to this day has been one of the most controversial…