Abortion USA
Abortion in the US
The matter concerning Abortion in the United States, and abortion-related issues, are the subject of intense public and political debate and discussion. It is a burning issue and ongoing discussion today in some aspects is even more intense than it used to be. It has become a very useful political tool to focus on the appearance of the abortion legislation for instance in times of election. Ever since the early 1900 almost every state had its own designed anti-abortion laws. Abortion was prohibited in more than 30 states and legal under specific circumstances in about 20 states. Circumstances that could make it legal for a woman to get an abortion could be pregnancies resulting from rape, incest or rare cases of date drugs. In 1973 one of the most controversial and famous cases of The Supreme Court, the decision Roe v. Wade invalidated all of these laws, and established that the availability of abortion is a part of the constitutional rights to a private life.
The key, deliberated article of the U.S. Constitution is the Fourteenth Amendment, which states that:
“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. 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, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws”
Roe vs. Wade stated that the abortion right "must be considered against important state interests in regulation." Furthermore the decision established a "trimester" threshold of state interest in the life of the fetus corresponding to its increasing "viability" (likelihood of survival outside the uterus) over the course of a pregnancy, such that states were prohibited from banning abortion early in pregnancy but allowed
The matter concerning Abortion in the United States, and abortion-related issues, are the subject of intense public and political debate and discussion. It is a burning issue and ongoing discussion today in some aspects is even more intense than it used to be. It has become a very useful political tool to focus on the appearance of the abortion legislation for instance in times of election. Ever since the early 1900 almost every state had its own designed anti-abortion laws. Abortion was prohibited in more than 30 states and legal under specific circumstances in about 20 states. Circumstances that could make it legal for a woman to get an abortion could be pregnancies resulting from rape, incest or rare cases of date drugs. In 1973 one of the most controversial and famous cases of The Supreme Court, the decision Roe v. Wade invalidated all of these laws, and established that the availability of abortion is a part of the constitutional rights to a private life.
The key, deliberated article of the U.S. Constitution is the Fourteenth Amendment, which states that:
“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. 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, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws”
Roe vs. Wade stated that the abortion right "must be considered against important state interests in regulation." Furthermore the decision established a "trimester" threshold of state interest in the life of the fetus corresponding to its increasing "viability" (likelihood of survival outside the uterus) over the course of a pregnancy, such that states were prohibited from banning abortion early in pregnancy but allowed