Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Roe v. Wade reading.

Ten facts/details:
1.) According to Texas law, life begins at conception.
2.) Some people believe abortion falls under marriage law.
3.) The later the abortion is performed, the higher the risk.
4.) Some people believe life begins when the fetus is capable of life outside the womb.
5.) Appellant and some amici aruge that a woman can terminate her pregnancy at any time and for any reason.
6.) The privacy right involved is not absolute.
7.) Abortion is not considered as a federal issue.
8.) Supposedly, the strict abortion law was created in the Victorian era to discourage sexual conduct.
9.) When most criminal abortion laws were created, the procedure was very dangerous.
10.) Mortality rates for women undergoing early abortions are as low or lower than normal childbirth.

Five questions:
1.) What constitutes life in national law?
2.) Who gets to decide for a woman whether or not she can have a child?
3.) What about the women incapable of raising/supporting children in states with strict laws?
4.) Why are individual states able to make it nearly impossible for a woman to get an abortion?
5.) What constitutes a human life?

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