Issue of the Case

This case is before the court because it affects every single person in the country, and even the world. Every single day women get raped and have to deal with the effects of being left all alone to take care of this child that has the eyes of her attacker. How much more terrifying could this be?

Also, the women who are uneducated in sex or even where children can come from are being left with a child they did not even intend on having.

"According to the report, "News about health occupies a relatively small amount of American news coverage across all platforms: 3.6 percent of news during 2007 and the first half of 2008." In a list of most frequently covered topics, health came in eighth -- far above religion, education and celebrities, but below the economy, crime, foreign affairs and politics." http://www.alternet.org/sex/113065/study:_u.s._media_keep_people_uneducated_about_health_issues/

It is amazing how people would take away the right of another human being. I would hate it if someone took away any of my rights. Now, I do not necessarily believe in abortion. I would not ever even have an abortion. But I will not take away the right of another person to make that choice. Life is all about choices, and what is the world without choices? It is no life at all.

The thing about this case is that it has been fought over for years upon years. I doubt it will truly ever end either. Especially with people who put religion over common sense and reason. I have said this previously, but I do not believe religion is bad, it just blinds people from being rational in situations that they normally would be completely rational about if religion was not tied into it. It is sad really. With that being said, in the Catholic religion they are against not only abortion, but also any type of contraception. I want to make it clear that I do not believe abortion is a type of contraceptive. They do not believe that you should be using birth control, condoms, spermacides, etc. The reason these types of contraceptives were invented were to help people who were married to that did not want to have any more children to have the option to still have sex and be in a healthy relationship. It also helps people who have diseases be able to have those types of relationships. There includes the people who are so wrapped up in believing that aids only affects people who are gay. But let’s not get into that too much.

"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."
http://womenshistory.about.com/library/etext/gov/bl_roe_a.htm

In the end this whole thing has to deal with the fact that people’s rights were being taken away. The government also doesn’t believe in murdering young children either. They decided upon a time frame in which you would be able to have the abortion and that it would have to be in a hospital or clinic. They also wanted to make sure that people could have a choice. That was the ultimate goal.

http://womenshistory.about.com/library/etext/gov/bl_roe_a.htm