Abortion – Baby Killer
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David De Souza
English
Position Paper
11/18/97
Abortion
Abortion. It is a topic that has invaded the sanctity of our dinner table conversations, English paper topics and even our court rooms. We are bombarded with pro-lifers calling abortion doctors “baby killers.” They yell about how abortion is unmoral, and how g_d wants us to chose life over death, but they seem to have no problem killing abortion doctors or beating up patients. The pro-lifers seem to think that the abortion laws were just thrown together by uncaring “baby killers” instead of Supreme court Justices. The fact is abortion use to be illegal. It wasnt until the case of Roe Vs. Wade that the Supreme court decided that a woman had the right to an abortion as long as certain guide lines established and then followed. The guidelines that were established following the Roe vs. Wade decisions are or still in effect today.
The current Legislature says that the “state may not regulate abortion at all during the first trimester”(
During the second trimester the state can regulate abortion “but only for the protection of the womans health”(
The 14th amendment of Constitution states that “no State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property,”( National Archives) After the Roe Vs. Wade case the Supreme court decided that “the word “person” in the 14th amendment, does not apply to the unborn” (
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