Roe V. Wade: A Woman’s Right To Choose
The case that made abortion legal was the Roe v. Wade case that acquired a lot of controversy. In many cases of the women’s right to choose most people believed it to be wrong to take a life of someone without even having their opinion on what is about to happen to them. So read on and see the way to have abortions, the safety hazards of them, and some ancient opinions on abortions. And the court case that allowed abortion to be here in present day. Even though the Roe v. Wade case was settled by the Supreme Court, people still believe that abortion is morally and ethically wrong and should not be an option suggested to expecting mothers.
Jane Roe was a girl with many troubles and they just get worse. Norma McCorvey had a hard life growing up the reason she had a hard life growing up was because she was abused by her parents and other family members (Hitchcock, 2007). Norma McCorvey lived in a little town 60 miles from Baton Rouge, Louisiana with her parents and older brother. Here is a little something about Norma and her older brother. Norma’s older brother, Jimmy, was mildly mentally disabled. Later in her life Norma married young and had become a young mother in her first marriage (Hitchcock, 2007). What were the ways to have abortions in the past that did not cause harm to the mother or to her body? The more common ways women have found to end pregnancies are listed in the paragraph (Hitchcock, 2007). Some women use herbs, teas and salves. Teas, salves, and herbs are in question of right or wrong to help a woman abort her fetus. In the 1920s and 1960s there ROE V. WADE 3 were written laws that forbid abortions altogether because people did not see where it was the right thing to kill off an unborn fetus (Hitchcock, 2007). Ancient opinions on abortions are all in different views and perspectives. If a pregnant woman is injured in a fight and miscarries the person responsible has to pay for the family’s loss (Hitchcock, 2007). Then there is worst consequences as if the woman dies also the person that caused the death should die too. Also an unborn child is considered to be the husband’s property and is is up to him on whether or not to sue if harm has occurred to his wife and unborn child (Hitchcock, 2007). In all states doctors are required to take the Hippocratic Oath which is an oath historically taken by physicians. It is one of the most widely known of Greek medical texts. In its original form, it requires a new physician to swear, by a number of healing gods, to uphold specific ethical standards. Here is the definition of abortion and some painful and dangerous ways to get an abortion. The definition of abortion is when an embryo or fetus growing inside of a pregnant woman leaves the uterus (Hitchcock, 2007). Now and again abortion can be achieved chemically or mechanically. Some say that to abort the fetus in the first trimester a woman should use surgical methods and not try to abort the baby herself by hitting or being hit in the stomach by anything (Hitchcock, 2007). To have an abortion done the physician dilates the cervix, making room to introduce a loop-shaped knife into the uterus and scrape out the fetus (Hitchcock, 2007). Some of the challenges of abortions are less harder now than back in the …show more content…
Wade. One accomplishment of the Roe v. Wade abortion case is that abortions are now allowed under discretisation of the parents or the woman (“Planned Parenthood”, n.d). Planned parenthood clinics give out free birth control, parenting classes to expecting teen mothers and adult first time mothers, and also can set up appointments with HMOs . All abortion clinics in the United States are required to keep confidentiality records for mothers. If the abortion of the fetus is caused in a fight no one is charged for the death of the baby. Abortion death rate is down to 0.001 percent in case of abortions because it has been made safer so the mother survives the procedure (“Planned Parenthood”,