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The last thing women need is a president and vice president who are prepared to turn back the clock on women's rights and repeal the protections of Roe v. Wade
No comment!
*Shrugs* Another abortion thread?
Who's for letting States decide this one?
Roe v. Wade should be repealed because no where in the Constitution does it give the federal government discretion over abortion. The issue should be left to the states.
Roe v. Wade should be repealed because no where in the Constitution does it give the federal government discretion over abortion. The issue should be left to the states.
Yeah!!! I didn't see your post until I had posted mine.
I was wondering, how would a procedure like that be? Like the State assemblies would vote on it, or referendums... I've always kind of been curious about what "letting the states decide" mean (besides the obvious). Does every state have to make a decision? Can there be a mandate so that States make a decision on it and move on within some sort of time frame? And what if on some states they just don't rule for or against it?
*Shrugs* Another abortion thread?
Who's for letting States decide this one?
States do still have laws that determine that nature of abortion. Illinois law says it is a felony to do a partial birth where the fetus is born alive and not assist it. As it is a baby and has rights. Some allow for the death. Some even have time limits. You need to look up the individual state laws.
Roe v Wade is safe. It will not be overturned no matter who gets elected. It is not about abortion it is a law about privacy.
It is very easy for a man to say "have my baby" because their part in the pregnancy is over in 15 minutes (on a good night). They don't have to carry the baby, change the way they eat, change the way they sleep, exercise, and basically live their lives for nine months. and in almost 100% of cases they aren't the primary care giver of that child, responsible for midnight feedings, diaper changes, colds, broken bones, and all the other things that go along with being a parent.
The man doesn't stretch out his body to a degree that it never really returns to form again, he doesn't have to endure hours of excrutiating pain and labor in order to push something the size of a watermelon out a hole the size of a grapefruit either.
and to the person who thinks women decide on abortion "willy nilly" you couldn't trivialize probably the most difficult and heartwrenching decision anymore if you tried.
Abortions were happening before Roe v Wade and the truth is they will continue if it is overturned, what makes Roe v Wade important is that abortion is no longer a gamble of survival for poor women who had to get back alley butchers instead of being able to afford to pay for a licensed doctor who performed them on the side and in secret.
Regardless, the Constitution does not give the federal government the right to decide on this issue. Therefore, it should be left to the discretion of the individual states whether they want to legalize abortion.
A childless married couple (the Does), the wife not being pregnant, separately attacked the laws, basing alleged injury on the future possibilities of contraceptive failure, pregnancy, unpreparedness for parenthood, and impairment of the wife's health. A three-judge District Court, which consolidated the actions, held that Roe and Hallford, and members of their classes, had standing to sue and presented justiciable controversies. Ruling that declaratory, though not injunctive, relief was warranted, the court declared the abortion statutes void as vague and overbroadly infringing those plaintiffs' Ninth and Fourteenth Amendment rights.
Doe v. Bolton (No. 70-40)
1. Doe's case presents a live, justiciable controversy and she has standing to sue, Roe v. Wade, ante p. 113, as do the physician [p180] appellants (who, unlike the physician in Wade, were not charged with abortion violations), and it is therefore unnecessary to resolve the issue of the other appellants' standing. Pp. 187-189.
2. A woman's constitutional right to an abortion is not absolute. Roe v. Wade, supra. P. 189.
3. The requirement that a physician's decision to perform an abortion must rest upon "his best clinical judgment" of its necessity is not unconstitutionally vague, since that judgment may be made in the light of all the attendant circumstances. United States v. Vuitch, 402 U.S. 62, 71-72. Pp. 191-192.
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