Roe Vs Wade Research Paper

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When it comes to controversial US Supreme Court cases Roe vs. Wade takes the title. The case is one of the most argued cases in history with disagreement in ethics, religion and biology. Even today there is still much dispute about issues concerning abortion such as; who should decide the legality of abortion, what methods can be used, and what role does religion and moral views play in the matter. Roe vs. Wade remodeled our national politics. It tore people into two sides, pro-choice and pro-life. In 1821 Connecticut passed the first state law making abortion illegal. By the early nineteen hundreds every state in the US had some kind of laws discriminating abortion. Abortion was looked down upon and was considered a common law. Common law…show more content…
Many changes have occurred on both sides. Still many people will argue that abortion is not right. According to the Washington Post abortion rates have now been declining since the 1980s. They hit an all-time low in 2009. Also Abortion has become more and more popular with lower income households. Today Americans can see some changes that actually restrict abortions again. According to ABC News Louisiana was named America’s most protected state and Washington came in as the least protected. “A law passed last summer in Louisiana now requires women to wait 24 hours between the time they undergo mandatory ultrasounds and the time they can have abortion procedures. This law also requires that the fetal heartbeat be made audible unless the woman specifically requests otherwise. Unless the woman is a victim of rape, and has reported it, she must listen to a description of the ultrasound.” (Lupkin, 2013) Forty Three state laws passed in 2012 and ninety two in 2011. Although it is restricted it is still permitted unlike back in the seventies. “One in three women will undergo an abortion by the time she is 45 years old,” according to the Guttmacher Institute. “Almost half of them are married or living with their significant other, and 73 percent of them are affiliated with a
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