Roe Vs Wade Research Paper

In Roe v Wade, the Supreme Court ruled that a woman's right to terminate her pregnancy was protected by the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution, which states in section one, "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws". In recent years, this Supreme Court ruling has come under attack and is dangerously close to being overturned;

Thus, Roe v Wade should remain intact.

Human rights ensure that governments do not discriminate based on sex, race, economic status or other characteristics in their efforts to improve or influence people’s health and lives. Abortion is linked to the right to the highest attainable standard of health, the right to privacy, the right to be free of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment and the right to make decisions about one’s reproductive health and life. In addition to this, certain federal programs such as Medicaid have discriminated against women regarding the issue of abortion. In 1976, Congress passed the Hyde Amendment which excludes abortion from the comprehensive health care services provided to low-income people by the federal government through Medicaid. However, Medicaid pays for other unnecessary proceedings, such as gender reassignment surgery. This raises discrimination issues regarding women's rights. Especially when the issue is regarding what a woman does with her own body. In the argument for Roe v Wade, a woman named Sarah Weddington argued in support of Roe v

Roughly, eighteen years after abortion legalization crime begin to decrease substantially. Now some may argue coincidence, however, the five states that allowed abortion in 1970 experienced declines earlier than the rest of the nation. The Donohue-Levitt hypothesis believes that Roe v. Wade is the reasoning behind the crime decrease and to back up this observation it states, " after abortion was legalized, the availability of abortions differed dramatically across states. In some states like North Dakota and in parts of the deep South, it was virtually impossible to get an abortion even after Roe v. Wade. If one compares states that had high abortion rates in the mid 1970s to states that had low abortion rates in the mid 1970s, you see the following patterns with crime. For the period from 1973-1988, the two sets of states (high abortion states and low abortion states) have nearly identical crime patterns. Note, that this is a period before the generations exposed to legalized abortion are old enough to do much crime". In addition to this hypothesis, it has been proven that children that grow up in nurturing environments are less likely to fall into a life of crime. Children that feel wanted and love tend to accomplish more in life versus children that are unwanted. Women that are forced to undergo delivering a child rather than given the option of an abortion tend to resent their child. Especially if they were not ready to be a parent in