CONSTITUTIONAL ASPECTS OF ABORTION

Constitutional Aspects of Controversial Issues



Constitutional Aspects of Abortion

Introduction

In the treaty was passed in 2006, delegates to discuss the concerns and even in preserving life, some pro-abortion organizations such as the Center for reproductive rights, they can claim the word is flexible enough to include abortion Duanyu

There is only one correct choice of reproductive rights in a broader context, that women have the right to control their bodies and their reproductive life. Although in recent decades, the struggle for abortion rights as the center, reproductive rights, including the right to terminate an unwanted pregnancy than the right to bear against racism also involves sterilization program for American children, and more.

Many people believe that abortion is a moral issue, but also a constitutional issue. Have women the right to choose her and her body does, and should not be any change or influence. This right is from the ninth amendment of the privacy is to protect the containment. Ninth Amendment:. "Constitutional enumeration of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny to stay, or belittle other people receive"Thesis statement

More than one million six hundred thousand abortions are performed in the U.S. surgical area for every three children who are conceived, one dies because of abortion. Three out of four women who have abortions say that a child would interfere with work, school or other responsibilities.

Do women have the right to terminate unwanted pregnancies? Or does the State the right (or perhaps it should for ethical reasons) abortion ban intentional? Should they be allowed some abortions and not others? Is status correct legal abortion direct result of their moral status?

Such questions have prompted heated debate over the past two decades. Curiously, most of the industrialized world, abortion was not a criminal offense until the second half of the nineteenth century enact a series of anti-abortion laws.

My research will focus on the following criteria of philosopher Mary Anne Warren.

1) Consciousness (of objects and events external or internal, or other), and in particular the capacity: In a remarkable defense of this position, the philosopher Mary Anne Warren following criteria for the "wrong person" suggested pain.

2) The activity of thought (the developed capacity to solve new and relatively complex)

3) Motivation (activity to be reported relatively independent of external control or direct DNA)

4) The ability, by all means, the number of new indeterminate possible content, but on many issues as possible for an indefinite period.

5) The existence of a self-concept and self-awareness, personal or social, or both.Constitutional Effects

The U.S. Senate voted to ban a form of abortion, which is produced at the fifth or sixth month of pregnancy. Thus, U.S. lawmakers have restricted women's right to an abortion for the first time since 1973, when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the legality of abortion. It is expected that the U.S. House of Representatives will soon approve the draft passed by the Senate, since most of it belongs to the pro-life Republican Party. Such abortions - a horrifying procedure that offends human ...