Abortion And The Right To Life
A march 2013 poll by the polling company found that 53 of americans oppose legal abortion except in only three or fewer circumstances.
Abortion and the right to life. If this suggestion of personhood is established the appellant s case of course collapses for the fetus right to life would then be guaranteed specifically by the amendment. When applied to abortion one question comes to mind. Abortion is not a constitutional right according to the strict text of the constitution but it has been justified as a constitutional right under the fourth amendment s protection of privacy. When the pregnancy results from rape or incest or when it threatens the life of the mother.
The idea that if abortions aren t legal they will not happen is a complete fantasy. In short the constitutional right to abortion is found not in the constitution itself but in a loose reading of it. The appellant conceded as much on reargument. Some philosophers argue that the right to life is an ambiguous phrase.
The right to life can be defined as the right to the bare necessities to live. What if someone s right to life is contingent upon another person. If we want to define the unborn as human beings the unborn s right to life is no greater or less than anybody else s right to life. Blackmun got around this by deciding a fetus simply isn t a person.
National right to life pac national right to life victory fund. The debate over abortion rights is ugly the gap between pro choice and pro life too vast for meaningful dialogue the differences too fundamental for compromise. They say that it combines two different ideas and that it is useful to separate them.