Planned Parenthood Vs. Wade

Does the father have a say when it comes to abortion? It was ruled unconstitutional under the Supreme Court in Plan Parenthood v. Danforth under the reasoning that the husband’s refusal to consent would veto the women’s choice to terminate a pregnancy and considering that she is the one who is caring the pregnancy the court voted in favor of the mother. Which now prevents the father from vetoing the choice of the mother in the choice of abortion. If the father wants the mother to go through with abortion but she says no as a result the father will still have to pay child support. The father does not even have to be notified due to the Supreme Court decision on Plan Parenthood v. Casey.

One example is the Roe v. Wade case. It was a Supreme Court decision (1973) where it was decided to constitutionally legalize abortion under the 9th amendment, but there were some conditions such as: the abortion must be under the first trimester, if the baby is a risk to the woman 's health, or if the woman was raped. This stirred many conflicts that led to people dividing into two groups: Pro-life (against abortion), and Pro-choice (for

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In opposition to pro-choice approval of legalization, an article of the Fordham Law Review, An American Tragedy: The Supreme Court on Abortion, delineates the decision in Roe v. Wade as unconstitutional on the grounds that the Court made egregious errors in the case. Byrn cites a number of mistakes, including the misinterpretation of common law, motivations behind nineteenth century abortion laws, the intent of the founding fathers, factual knowledge of fetuses, along with a disregard for the Supreme Court’s own definition of a person in section one of the fourteenth amendment compounded to generate the erroneous decision in Wade. As current interpretations of the fourteenth amendment include all human beings, especially the marginalized, as protected under the law, the exclusion of unborn children seems

There is no need to risk a woman’s health and livelihood by taking away her choice; only the mother-to-be can know her own situation thoroughly enough to make the best possible decision about her future. This is further supported by the nation’s judicial system during the Roe vs. Wade case in 1973 where Harry Blackmun stated that the “fundamental right of single women and married persons to choose whether or not to have children is protected by the Ninth Amendment, through the Fourteenth Amendment.” This court ruling made abortions decidedly legal in the United States, but many women are still being denied the right to terminate their pregnancies. When the ability to choose a safe and legal option is taken away, women that still seek an abortion

There have been many legal cases dealing with abortion and the laws restricting it. Some of those cases are: Gonzalez v. Carhart and Whole Woman’s Health Care, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, and Roe v. Wade. Roe v. Wade was an abortion case held in 1973 that was tried because of the abortion laws and the requirements to get one. Roe claimed that the laws violated her constitutional rights. The Law at that time was that you could only get an abortion if your life was in danger, Roe said although her life was not in danger that she should not afford the expenses of traveling out of state for the abortion.

Roe V Wade was one of the most controversial supreme court decisions in history, on January 22 1973 Both Roe V Wade and Doe V Bolton were decided with a majority vote 7 - 2 . In the early weeks of june a texan women named Norman McCovery discovered she was pregnant , not wanting the baby McCovery decided the best way to obtain an abortion was to falsely state that the baby she was carrying was conceived by rape, this attempt failed due to the fact that the police found no report or evidence to prove her alleged rape. McCovery decided to have an illegal abortion , This was extremely difficult because in 1821 Connecticut made abortion illegal and by 1910 illegal abortion was a criminal offence in all states for both the patient and the physician performing the procedure ; Sadly

From 1848 to 1920, an outrageous span of 70 years, women fought for equal rights, to have their voices and opinions heard. Little by little women have gained rights they have so passionately fought for. In 1973, about 50 years after women became eligible to vote, and began to be taken more seriously, the case of Roe v Wade granted women to have one of the most impactful rights to date, to terminate an unwanted pregnancy. Now, it is safe to say that all women and perhaps most men would not want women to lose the rights they have today, especially because there have been many influential women around the world who have been given the chance to be impactful because of the rights they possess. So, if we do not want to take away women’s rights and

To look at abortion as murder the court decided that a fertilized egg should have the same traits as a full term baby. The court looked at the principal of privacy and the fourteenth amendment and did not extend the rights to an unborn fetus. The court in Roe V. Wade turned to medical evidence this evidence led them to a three-tiered approach. In this approach they separated a pregnancy into three trimesters. The first trimester is when most abortions occur.

But in nearly all the instances the use of the word is such that it has application only to postnatally.” The developing fetus cannot maintain the same right to property as the pregnant women. In order for the court to take control of a women’s body they have to prove that they have a significant state interest in protecting the property of the developing fetus, but the fetus has no defined rights under the Constitution. Furthermore, if the court denies women the right to have an abortion they are effectively depriving her of her right to property which would set a dangerous precedent. If the government can decide to make a woman retain her pregnancy, then they can effectively control other aspects of her

Over the past year there has been a vast amount of discussion dealing with American politics and the American Presidential election. The debates between Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton sparked fear in certain races and sexes throughout the world. Of particular interest was the debate revolving around Planned Parenthood and women's rights in America. After Trumps personal take on Planned Parenthood, it became apparent that women's rights could be threatened if he became president. Although Clinton had her flaws, she believed in women's rights and is an advocate for Planned Parenthood.

Availability of health care to poor women, and the need for contraceptives to prevent pregnancies rather than need abortions. But if Planned Parenthood wants to keep its funding and continue to provide abortions then it has to separate the two services, and provide evidence federal funding isn't going towards abortions. I believe abortion should be legal, but I also believe people who don't believe in it shouldn't have to pay for

In the case of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court ruled that multiple U.S. amendments give Americans the right to privacy. Although the case ruled abortion a right for women, many states still implement rules and regulations that make a professionally administered abortion very hard, if not nearly impossible to obtain (Abortion). I believe that abortion should be legalized and made readily available all over the world. The easy availability of professional abortions reduces the rate of maternal death (Abortion).

Abortion and reproductive justice is a hot topic right now. With left and right wing legislators trying to support or reject reproductive justice rights, it is everywhere we turn. Our class guest speaker, Carly Class, works for the Southeastern divine for Planned Parenthood in Florida. To many, Planned Parenthood is an abortion clinic, but it does so much more than terminate pregnancies. She went over the services that Planned Parenthood provides as well as the definition of reproductive justice.

However, in most cases it is the embryo that is aborted and not a fetus, which is the stage in which the embryo starts to develop. As such an embryo cannot be written in statistics as a life lived as it is dependent solely on the carrier, thus aborting at this stage technically should not be considered as the taking of life but as a decision on whether to facilitate this possible life. Personhood begins after a fetus is able to survive outside the womb, not at conception. Conclusion