What happens when a woman gets raped, resulting in pregnancy? Will she be forced to keep the child that has been seized from this happening? Or will she have the free, legal choice of aborting the child? Doctors, governors, and people have been debating on whether or not abortion should be legal. All people should have the right to their own life and findings. Although the baby has constitutional rights, there are still many exceptions to abortion. If a fetus is the result of sexual abuse or if certain maternal diseases take place, abortion should be a legal path for the mother to take.
Abortion should be a legal choice for a woman to make when rape and sexual assault took place and a fetus is an outcome. Rape alone is a horrible concept. …show more content…
Furthermore, it has its own constitutional rights. Additionally, Justice Blackmun, an American lawyer who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, says that “...then came to the conclusion "that the word 'person,' as used in the Fourteenth Amendment, does not include the unborn… unborn children are indeed "persons" within the language and meaning of the Fourteenth and Fifth Amendments”(NCBI). This means that the ‘person’ even though unborn, ultimately has the decision of having to be aborted or not, not the mother. But pregnancy and abortion laws say otherwise: “According to the abortion laws a fetus has no separate existence apart from its mother and in certain circumstances can be killed. If this "thing" which has not and never had an existence of its own also has no legal right to live, how can it have legal rights of any kind?” (NCBI). Yes, the fetus has its own constitutional rights, but some abortion laws argue that the fetus has no separate existence from the mother. Therefore, it is the mother’s decision on whether or not to terminate the fetus. Even though the fetus earns its constitutional rights later in the pregnancy, most abortions don’t happen in the second or third trimester of the pregnancy. “Of the 1.6 million abortions performed in the U.S. each year, 91 percent are performed during the first trimester; 9 percent are performed in the second trimester); and only about 100 are performed in the third trimester” (FOX News). Even if the fetus has its own constitutional rights, most abortions don’t happen when it does gain its
Abortion should be a legal choice for a woman to make when rape and sexual assault took place and a fetus is an outcome. Rape alone is a horrible concept. …show more content…
Furthermore, it has its own constitutional rights. Additionally, Justice Blackmun, an American lawyer who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, says that “...then came to the conclusion "that the word 'person,' as used in the Fourteenth Amendment, does not include the unborn… unborn children are indeed "persons" within the language and meaning of the Fourteenth and Fifth Amendments”(NCBI). This means that the ‘person’ even though unborn, ultimately has the decision of having to be aborted or not, not the mother. But pregnancy and abortion laws say otherwise: “According to the abortion laws a fetus has no separate existence apart from its mother and in certain circumstances can be killed. If this "thing" which has not and never had an existence of its own also has no legal right to live, how can it have legal rights of any kind?” (NCBI). Yes, the fetus has its own constitutional rights, but some abortion laws argue that the fetus has no separate existence from the mother. Therefore, it is the mother’s decision on whether or not to terminate the fetus. Even though the fetus earns its constitutional rights later in the pregnancy, most abortions don’t happen in the second or third trimester of the pregnancy. “Of the 1.6 million abortions performed in the U.S. each year, 91 percent are performed during the first trimester; 9 percent are performed in the second trimester); and only about 100 are performed in the third trimester” (FOX News). Even if the fetus has its own constitutional rights, most abortions don’t happen when it does gain its