As we all know, abortion is a very controversial subject. Abortion has been legal in the United States for over thirty-five years, yet the debate over the morality and subsequent legality of the procedure still goes on. The majority of people, at least the ones that I know, have strong opinions on both sides of the issue, and the question over the legality of this matter still has had an affect on current political campaigns and elections. Groups of people concerned about any legal issue would want to elect candidates that feel the same as they do and that is natural, so the debate on abortion continues to go on year after year and I don’t see this changing anytime soon. I would say that some people have issues with the United States Supreme Court when the court “legislates from the bench”. This is what happened in the case of Roe V. Wade in 1973. There is no law or constitutional amendment that specifically protects the legality of an abortion as a medical procedure. However, the Supreme Court has ruled that any local or state law which outlaws abortion violates a person’s constitutional right to privacy under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment (US Constitution Online, paragraph 1).
The definition of abortion is the termination of a pregnancy after, accompanied by, resulting in, or closely followed by the death of an embryo or a fetus as the spontaneous expulsion of a human fetus (Merriam-Webster, paragraph 1). Abortions are very common. In fact, more than 1 out of 3 women in the U.S. have an abortion by the time they are 45 years old (Planned Parenthood, paragraph 2). The definition includes accidental abortions like, miscarriages and stillbirths. However, in my own personal opinion an abortion is a decision that an individual proactively makes and therefore she obtains and does not include miscarriages or stillbirths as she has no control over these circumstances. This is not what is being debated today in our society. What is being...