Roe Vs. Wade Case Study

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Where would live begin? Since the Roe vs. Wade case in 1973, over 57 million babies have not had the chance to take their first breath or at life. Abortions have been killing unborn human beings since 1973. Unborn babies should have the right to live like any other person, after all they are humans. The operation of killing a baby is horrifying, which is probably why women struggle after having their abortions. After all, those women decided whether or not they were going to give a person a chance at life. People argue whether or not its ok to have an abortion or kill human life before it even took its first breath. In the 1800’s abortion was illegal, but in the 1973 Supreme Court Case Roe vs. Wade; abortion became legal again. This is the …show more content…

Jane Roe was a Texas resident who wanted to have an abortion, but at that time Texas law didn’t allow abortions except to save the pregnant mother’s life. She was suing Henry Wade mainly because he enforced the law that didn’t allow abortion except to save the mother’s life. The Supreme Court ruled that it the right to privacy also included the right of a women to decide if she wanted an abortion. She eventually gave the baby up for adoption, and since then she switched sides of the abortion debate and started a “Roe No More” organization. What is an abortion? How is the operation done? What do they do with the body? The google definition for abortion is “the deliberate termination of a human pregnancy.” Suzanne Trupin (MD) explains the when and some of the operations used to abort the baby. “Abortions performed prior to nine weeks from the last menstrual period (seven weeks from conception) are performed either surgically (a procedure) or medically (with drugs). From nine weeks until fourteen weeks, an abortion is performed by dilation and suction curettage …show more content…

It is understandable that women struggle after her abortion, because the women violated her own moral code, destroyed the natural bond between a child and its mother, and she also transgressed another strong bond: the protection that a mother gives its child. “In a study of post-abortion patients only eight weeks after their abortion, researchers found that 44% of patients complained of nervous disorders, 36% had experienced sleep disturbances, 31% had regrets about their decisions, and 11% had been prescribed psychotropic medicine by their family doctor. Guilt is what an individual feels when she has violated her moral code.” Says the Wisconsin right to life education fund. The kind of guilt women have is unimaginable, and as you saw over a quarter of women regret their decision about getting an abortion. The grief of losing that child never ends and its cannot even imagine that it is very hard to forgive yourself for making that kind of decision. Most women announce an anniversary date and still remember it like “it was yesterday.” The impact of that grief of that loss doesn’t just affect the mother, it affects the boyfriends, husbands, fiancées, and other future partners. “Nearly half of women in one study said abortion had “significantly altered” their relationship with their partner. Breakups are common,even among couples with previously stable relationships.” Abortions just do not affect the mother of

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