Changing Abortion Guidlines
Abortion and the constitution
Changing abortion guidelines
Abortion is the deliberate termination of human pregnancy; this process is performed the first 3 weeks of pregnancy. According to Roe v. Wade it states that a woman is entitled to personal privacy protection, this is due to the fact that it includes the woman's determination of whether to bear a child or not. The judicial oversight of legislation was increased by the Courts under the privacy line of the cases; consideration was of abortion related laws in all the States of America (Sarah, K. 2010).
Looking at the historical review of medical and legal views concerning abortion, the Courts found out that the modern prohibitions were not in line with the recent vintage thus lacking historical foundation that would have played a fundamental role of preserving them constitutional review (Edward, L. 2002). The Courts also discovered that the word person was in the due process clause alongside other provisions of the constitution that did not recognize the unborn being. The other factor is the Fourteenth Amendment's concept of personal liberty and restrictions upon state action. This factor highlighted the right of a personal privacy and the guarantee of certain areas of privacy; hence a woman had the decision of either keeping the pregnancy or terminating it.
Abortion is both constitutional and unconstitutional at the same time; this is according to Ultrasound Display Law (Sarah, K.2010). All the states in America adopted this law that prohibits a woman from having an abortion except if the doctors make the image of the fetus visible to her during the ultrasound examination. The law in the other hand is viewed as a violation to the First Amendment rights of the doctors.
This substantive due process is unconstitutional since it is vague. Federal district from North Carolina applied strict scrutiny and found out that the law is most likely to constitute a violation of the First Amendment rights of the doctors in manner that the doctors compelled their speech concerning the display of the image and therefore lacked a compelling state interest.
The issue of abortion is not correctly framed, given the argument that a person has right and a non- person has no right (Edward, L. 2002). So if you put a person and a non-person in a contest, then the person will automatically win the contest because the non-person has no right. Although State law protects things that are not person which in many cases viewed as public property, on the other hand it may restrain the ways of a person who might be having superior rights may be in a position of exercising those rights against entity, person or non-person. The state allows for abortion to be carried out if the fetus can be a burden to the mother given the circumstances the mother present are valid. Then the state will continue with the abortion if it does not violate the rights of the pregnant person (Sarah, K. 2010).
The issue of abortion has always fuelled heated debates as it tends to gloss over real issues. For instance who would you criminally prosecute between the pregnant mothers as an abortionist or the person who got her pregnant with deprivation of liberty or life as first degree murder for the termination of the pregnancy. (Chris Meyers, 2010)
The other considerable debate is based on history. Looking back history religious beliefs, social mores and attitudes towards
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