How much longer until Roe v. Wade is overturned?

Question

It's gonna happen, we can't keep killing our offspring forever. Sooner or later women will understand that they have to take responsibility for their actions. The question is: when?

The Thirteenth Amendment was passed in 1865, officially ending slavery after almost 20 years of slavery. Although, since the country was founded in 1776, let's say there were almost 100 years of slavery in America.

Obviously, abortion is much worse than slavery. At least they (usually) didn't kill the slaves, and the slaves had a chance to escape. However, embryos have no such chance.

Now Roe v. Wade was passed in 1973, over 30 years ago. Hopefully, history won't repeat itself, which would mean we have 70 years of this disaster left.

Answer 1

I believe the argument will be up infront of the Supreme Court this year or early 2008. We will have our answer then. The real question is: Will these men and I guess there's only 1 woman left now, do what is right and preserve ALL life, or if they will cave into the lobbyists like their counterparts did 30 years ago.

Answer 2

Actually it will probably be within the next 10-15 yrs.
The big argument for abortion is within the first trimester because it is not viable therefore susceptible to miscarriage.

However....within the last couple of years science has proven the reason for 85% of miscarriages are actually non-existent pregnancies. So until the baby is proven existent typically via ultrasound, it is possible the person actually wasn't pregnant to begin with. It was something like a false pregnancy. Once the pregnancy has been established the possibility of miscarriage is very slim and it takes something medical or traumatic to stop the growth of the fetus.
Therefore, making the fetus viable dependant upon the mothers actions or medical condition.
Also, the newer ultrasounds have shown that the production of the baby happen significantly earlier than previously expected. Sex can now be determined as early as 9 weeks, the heartbeat is by the 3rd week (which is of course before most women even realize they are pregnant), and all nerve endings shortly after.
Also, fetuses have proven to be viable in special circumstances outside of the womb at an early time. The earliest that I know of is 16 weeks after conception. She was a military wife and it happened on post.
Although these babies to have medical problems they still survive and prove viability.
So with all the new technology pro-choicers are finding themselves in a serious predicament.

Answer 3

First, your history is a little off: while the country was *established* in 1776, slavery existed in the colonies for long before that. The Mayflower landed in 1620, which means there was plenty of time for slavery to exist prior to the 17 hundreds. Wikipedia says 1654 was the year the first legally owned slave existed on the US continent.

Secondly, slavery and abortion will always exist, regardless of laws. Abortion has been practiced by a number of societies for thousands of years and slavery still goes on today, even though it is criminalized here in the United States.
Abortions were performed in all the time before Roe v. Wade; a simple law does not make people stop "killing their offspring." They obviously don't see it that way or they wouldn't do it.

Since your specific question deals with Roe v. Wade, I think the best thing to do is investigate polls dealing with the subject. A Harris Poll in 2005 said that only 52% of respondents support Roe v Wade and 51% consider themselves pro-choice. The more interesting numbers are the questions concerning "abortion in all circumstances" and "abortion in some circumstances." Adding up those percentages, you get 78% support for abortion in some way.

An undated article on the Minnesota Family Council website says that respondents in a Gallup poll were evenly split in calling themselves pro-life or pro-choice. The article may be from 2001.

I think the biggest problem here is your comparison of slavery to abortion. The people who were enslaved were fully formed and able to voice their discontent and to show themselves as whole, independent entities. A fetus cannot do that. It cannot think for itself or, for that matter, live outside of the womb. For that reason I think people will be more apt to give the choice to the mother rather than the child. I think there are also a great number of people who will either A) acknowlege that abortions will continue to happen in the country even if illegal and that this will make it less safe for women and/or B) know someone who has had an abortion who needed to make that choice, however painful it might have been for them.

Answer 4

I think the writing is on the wall. Roe was just plain bad law. That doesn't mean that abortions will stop, though. It just sends the choice back to the state level where it originally was and should now be. However, before the Supremes created Roe, in states like New Jersey abortion was illegal. If Roe goes down, you can bet almost every state will still allow it.

Answer 5

Look - there are two completely irreconsilable positions. One is that a fetus is a human life, and the other is that it is not. There is (currenty) no middle ground and there is no autorhitative answer forthcoming.

It is reasonable for the Federal governement to NOT dissallow this controversial activity (abortion). It is also perfectly reasonable for individuals to lobby against the act. and avoid it themselves. Now if that "anti" groups can't get enough support to even create one state law that prohibits abortion, why would they expect the Federal gov't to get involved.

Frankly IMO the argument that a recently inseminated ovum is a human life is extremely weak. No culture I'm aware of has ever treated miscarriage as a death nor performed conventional buirial ceremonies for a Q1 miscarriage. No one acts as if it's a human death - so the court reasonably assessed that abortion isn't murder and shouldn't be illegal.

Note also that many of these "deaths" could be prevented with the use of contraceptive devices, yet many "antis" are against disseminating information about these to the at-risk groups of youths.
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Answer 6

You really need an adjustment in the way you think. Slavery is horrible no matter what year it was in...And if you think that Roe Vs. Wade will be overturned, you are mistaken...We live in the 21st. century and should be able to do what we like with out own bodies....I've gone through an abortion with my ex before, and it was the hardest thing to do in my life. But I think the life that the child would have had, and it would have been horrible. I do think that adoption is the way to go, If you are able. But outlawing abortion will lead to more deaths of mothers and embryos, Women are going to get them legally or not.. If you go to a doctor you will get council ling and alternatives..If you go to an alley to a guy with a coat hanger you will only get death...

Answer 7

it is so thrilling how human beings think of that simply by fact we are professional-existence and prefer Roe V Wade reversed that we don't spend time on the different important matters like feeding the unfavorable etc. that isn't the case in any respect. even in case your statistic approximately professional-selection is authentic, records do not make something outstanding or incorrect. purely simply by fact abortion is criminal does not make it outstanding the two. i won't be able to assert that abortion is a manner of existence conflict- I say it somewhat is a non secular conflict. What I advise by using it is, devil has made human beings think of that a toddler interior the womb isn't something greater advantageous than a gaggle of cells that basically grow to be human the two very late in being pregnant or maybe at delivery. it somewhat is misguided. seem on the persons who're professional-selection- they are throughout u . s . of america taking a stand for what they pick to have self assurance, and that i guess you does not tell them to offer up might you- so whilst a existence is the soundness (the babies) of path we can proceed to stand up for them. additionally i be responsive to for a actuality that abortion isn't good on the ladies's physique, and emotions the two. I advised women folk for over 10 years, and what abortions did to them, made it very clean to me that this concern is the two with regard to the babies and the ladies.

Answer 8

Roe vs. Wade is not a law. It is a court case. The only ones who can change it are either the Supreme Court or Congress and the state congresses by creating an amendment to the Consitution. The amendment probably will not fly. It might get sponsored but I doubt it would ever make it thru the process. The Supreme Court is chancy as well. It would have to be a very right wing conervative Supreme Court. Those are hard to come by.

If you want to stop abortion (or at least greatly reduce abortion) have better sex education and make birth control better and easier to obtain.

Answer 9

i can't wait for it to be overturned but i'm sure it won't happen.

you can't blame this all on woman or you'll start to want to clad us all in veils and not let us show our hands, ankles, or knees.

a big pre-choice augment is rape and young pregnancies, even though a woman can choose to keep her pants on a man can and sometimes does force or pressure her to have sex with him. resulting in a unwanted and unloved child.

men are as much to blame for unwanted children. it takes two to make a thing go right and it takes two to make a thing go wrong. until men can carry a baby to term roe v wade will still have some power. if people want to stop killing babies maybe men should let a woman's "no" mean no.

Answer 10

Liberals your answers do not make sense to this question. If it not a life, why can someone be charged with murder if a pregnant woman is in a car accident and she loses the child as a result of the car accident?

It can't be a life for that person and not a life in others. Which is it? It amazes me how people come up with their answers on Yahoo to justify their position.