Abortion is a women's own right and choice. In 1973 the Roe v. Wade decision proved this by recognizing abortion as a fundamental constitution right and made it legal in all states. The law now permits abortion at the request of the women without any restrictions in the first trimester and some restrictions in the second trimester to protect the women's health. The National Abortion Right Act League argues that without legal abortion women would be denied their constitutional right of privacy and liberty.
The women's right to her own body subordinates those of the fetus and the
U.S. Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade argued that the women's "right to
privacy" overruled the fetus's right to life. If abortion was illegal
it would force poor women to bear and raise children they can't afford to
bring up. There would be a number of unsafe abortions in back allies. It
would also force women to give up their dreams and stay home to bring up
babies. Worst of all, it would condemn victims o apeand incest to carry and
nurture the offspring of their rapist. Abortion is necessary for
women to have control over their own bodies and life. One activist said,
"If I hadn't had that abortion my life would have been a disaster. I
wouldn't have made it to medical school. I was married at that point to a
very ill man and it would have been terrible to have to have my baby.
People who need abortions are in some kind of turmoil and it's really a
life-saving thing." To ignore the rights of others is selfish
and injustice. Women must have the right to control the functions of their
own bodies. Revern George Gardiner pastor of the college Hill United
Methodist Church, told the council that the ordnance would have done little
good. "Young women need the freedom to make choices for their reproductive