What do you think of roe v. wade? why?

Question

What do you think of roe v. wade? why?

Answer 1

I think this was a landmark decision for the women of America.  I do not believe that the rights of an embryo or a foetus should come before the rights of a sentient being already living her life.  I do believe that women who do not wish to have a baby should take every precaution possible to avoid becoming pregnant but for whatever reason they have become pregnant they should have a right to decide if they do not want to have the baby.

A woman may not want a baby for several reasons - she may realise she is in the wrong relationship or be in an abusive relationship and not want to bring a child into this.  She may realise that she does not have the financial status to raise a child in a way that she would like to.  She may be mentally unready to bring up a child.  It is not all about women who put their careers first - but even if this is the reason it should still be their choice.  The embryo/foetus is not a sentient being - even a new born child does not have any capacity to think or know much about itself.  This is not a living breathing person.  Some people argue that a woman could simply go through with the pregnancy and put the child up for adoption but why should she have to go through 9 months of pregnancy and then childbirth if she does not want to.  A woman's life is never in as much danger as when she is pregnant - that is a fact.  

I live in Ireland where abortion is still illegal and women have to travel to England to get their abortions carried out - I feel very strongly that this is wrong and demonizing women who have abortions is wrong.  There are strict rules in place in the US and the UK - based on when a foetus becomes viable outside the womb.  I hate the pro-lifers do not seem to care much about the life of the pregnant women or the abortion doctors that they often blow up - that is not pro-life.

Answer 2

I think its was one of the most horrid decision made in American history because (first of all I believe that life begins at conception because if its doesn't then at what point in the womb does life begin??) and no precious human life should be taken like that. I'm all for women's rights but there is also a 50% chance that that baby will be a women. What about her rights????? I'm pro-life all the way.

Answer 3

I believe the judges created a law that they were not constitutionally allowed to create.  The creation of a law is the job of the legislature, not the judicial branch.

I also believe that the judicial branch is designed to eliminate bias in law, not create it.  In the case of R v. W, it creates it against men.  And for that reason, it is a bad decision.

If Roe v. Wade were truly inspired by ethical cause, then the same court would also assure that men are not be held accountable for the birth of a child.  After all, the "right to choose" concept is that the fetus is not considered a separate life form until the mother (not the father) declares it so.  If a mother has the unique "right to choose" as the courts pretend to believe, then if she chooses to have the child, the father should no longer be accountable. After all, the fetus does not legally become a life form because of conception (which is the father's only participation) , it becomes a life form because of the mother's declaration (for which the father has no legal standing).  If the court's decision was truly ethically driven, non-sexist, and consistent, the father should only be accountable for correcting his contribution to the physical condition of the woman's body, which would be half the price of the birth or an abortion.