Roe V. Wade Pros And Cons

Despite the many positive rights given to a fetus, others believe that the rights given to the fetus steal from the rights belonging to the mother. This issue has been strongly talked about and debated over since the beginning of the abortion era. But it was not until 1973 Roe V. Wade standard that it gained so much attention in the media and the publics eyes. Over the course of many years’ debates, standards, court rulings, assaults, and even murders have come to light over this very touchy issue.

“In the initial Roe V. Wade standard of 1973 holds that the government has a legitimate interest in protecting potential human life…” A woman has the right to terminate pregnancy “until the point of viability, than assessed (In 1973)…show more content…
Casey Standard. “In the Casey ruling of ’92, the court scaled back the viability standard from twenty-four to twenty-two weeks. In an International law it states “Human beings have rights beginning at the moment of conception.” (American Convention on Human Rights) The ruling behind the Roe V. Wade was that the supreme courts decision was to resolve the tension between the right of privacy and competing state interests by confining a woman’s right to choose abortion. Following the Casey Standard was the Missouri Abortion Statute. This statute defined viability as “that stage of fetal development when the life of the unborn child may be continued INDEFINITLY outside the womb.” (On life support or not, does not…show more content…
The laws are perceived as a very positive thing. The first of these is the fetal homicide status. These laws treat the murder of a pregnant woman as a double murder that arguably affirms fetal rights in a statutory manner. If a woman’s physician determines that a fetus is viable, the state may prohibit abortion unless the physician further determines that the abortion is necessary to preserve the life or health of the woman. In accordance with the previous statement, the viability standard can be altered to prevent the subordination of a woman’s right to choose abortion to the state interest in protecting potential human life. The fetal rights embrace a complex variety of topics and issues involving; law, criminal, employment, health care, and family law. Legal rights have centered on the mother, with the fetus treated as part of her. The US law has granted the fetus limited rights. The supreme court has ruled that a woman has a constitutionally guaranteed unqualified right to abortion in the first trimester. The woman in some rare cases has the right to terminate the pregnancy in the second trimester although the state may limit that right. But states are permitted to completely outlaw abortion in the third trimester. A bill called the bill 1019 increases the criminal charge from assault, to assault and murder if a pregnant woman is harmed in a crime. This bill is the first time a zygote, embryo, or fetus is so