Social Issues Surrounding Abortion

The Declaration of Independence begins, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” However, often times, social issues highlight the difference in belief amongst the general public. One of these major issues is abortion. Abortion is is defined by the Merriam Webster Dictionary as, “the deliberate termination of a human pregnancy, most often performed during the first 28 weeks of pregnancy and often regarded by the biological parent(s) as unpleasant or badly made or carried out.” On the other hand, Planned Parenthood defines an abortion as, “safe and very common ways of ending

Finally, the Court further held that a fetus is not a person protected by the constitution. However. The laws surrounding abortion, ranging from methods, to funding, to parental consent and more, continue to be debated and shaped to this

First, if the fetus were to develop normally and come to term the woman herself will die. This is the only reason that both parties seem to find agreement on. However, some pro-lifers still hold the reservation that the woman herself has lived a healthy life and each child that is aborted is potential lost. They claim that the fetus had the possibility of growing up and making a difference or changing the nation for the better, and, if not that, then the child would have at least got the opportunity to life just has the mother had. On the other hand, pro-choicers stand firm is believing that it is both ethical and legal to abort a fetus if it is posing a threat to the mother’s life. They justify this claim through the Constitution also using the mother’s right to life- stating that it is unjust for the mother to have to give up her life for the sake of an unborn entity (not a person