Persuasive Essay On Abortion

“Young women today will come of age with fewer rights than their mothers and grandmothers.” The decision to overturn Roe v. Wade will impact generations of women which was made clear by dissenting judges Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan. Abortion is a medical procedure that terminates a pregnancy before the fetus is viable, which is considered to be around 24 weeks of gestation, a procedure that is listed in essential healthcare services published by the World Health Organization. The ethics of this procedure has created controversy in the United States and around the world, forcing this medical procedure to become political and “on the ballot” each election. Since procedures similar to abortion are in our country’s

Tension grew once again in the 1930s when obstetricians demanded for legal change during the Great Depression. Obstetricians, like Frederick Taussig, believed abortions should be available especially if a woman is experiencing poverty and cannot afford to have a child. At this point abortions were being performed in hospitals where physicians could supervise procedures allowing for them to push for reform. In the 1960s, physicians started protesting for abortions in cases of rape, incest, severe fetal abnormality, or if the fetus is endangering the women’s life. Starting in the 1970s, those against abortions and those for abortions were dedicated to prove their side under the Constitution. Pro-lifers, those who claimed the Constitution protects the right to life for an unborn child hoped to gain support in the Catholic church while pro-choicers claimed the Constitution protects a woman's right to terminate a pregnancy. Both sides were using the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth amendment claiming that a person’s right to life, liberty, and property protects both a woman's right to privacy and the life of an unborn

Considering this was not a medical term, they were using it to further their agenda in hopes of eventually overturning Roe v. Wade. The pro-lifers intended to go after abortions in the later terms, as they were hoping to make the window of abortions smaller and smaller until they completely got rid of it. The next president, Obama, continued supporting the pro-choice movement and elected Justice Kagan and Justice Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. However, all progress was reversed in 2016 when Donald Trump got elected as president. Similarly to Reagon, he embraced pro-life ideals to win over evangelical voters. During his presidency, he packed the court with pro-life conservative judges which created a conservative majority. As abortion became political, pro-lifers became synonymous with conservatives while pro-choices became synonymous with