I am doing a paper on why abortion should be illegal. Have any ideas?

Answer 1

Skippy say even if Bobbie Sue Redneck is pregnant with a Two-headed cerebral palsy incest rape child of her NASCAR watching 6-fingered Daddy/Brother and needs an abortion to save her sad pathetic trailer park life, abortion is still murder and should be illegal.
Thats all Skippy has to say about that.

Answer 2

I would look at the line of cases holding that there is a federal Constitutional right to abort a child. Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey are the most important, as well as Gonzalez v. Carhart, decided last term. The problem with the reasoning of these cases is that they found a Constitutional right where, admittedly, there was none. The U.S. Constitution does not mention or guarantee a right to privacy explicitle, but the Court found that certain other Amendments, notably the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth, contained "penumbras and emanations" that suggested the Founders intended for privacy to be an implicit right.

The easiest way to challenge abortion as a federal right is to argue that the Constitution should be read as a limiting document on government, not an expansive document on human rights. The role of the states, the argument goes, is to ensure human rights, while the role of the federal government is to enforce federal policy only.

Answer 3

Why are you doing a paper on something this controversial when you don't even know a good reason yourself?

Read this for a start and think a little about the topic
http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/2086/context/archive
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6470403.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2038739,00.html

Excerpts:

"Across Latin America, an estimated 5,000 women die every year as a result of clandestine abortions, according International Planned Parenthood Federation. An estimated 800,000 are hospitalized due to complications, according to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, based in New York and Washington.

Abortion is prohibited across most of Latin America. Cuba and Puerto Rico are the exceptions. While some countries allow abortion in cases of rape or danger to the mother's life, there are no exceptions in Chile, Colombia and El Salvador. These countries prosecute hundreds of women for having abortions."

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"But legalizing abortion is also key, says Schkolnik, to prevent so many women from dying. She points out that where abortion is legal--such Europe and North America--the percentage of abortions performed has actually gone down. She says that's because legalization is usually accompanied by informed access to public health, education and family planning."

Answer 4

"For example, if through negligence a motorist seriously injured a pedestrian, the law would require the motorist to pay money damages measured by the medical bills incurred, to keep the injured person alive. Or, if the motorist were a medical doctor, the law would require him to perform appropriate emergency actions at the accident scene to save the life of the person he injured. Or, the law might require motorists not to use their property in certain ways, such as moving at high velocity through school zones, so as to protect the lives of others. Each of these cases, however, involves a situation in which one person is kept alive or protected from fatal injury at someone else's expense or through someone else's involuntary actions. In terms of the legal principles involved, then, there is nothing radical in the position of those opposed to abortion who argue against any privilege in a woman to take actions that will necessarily result in fatal consequences to her unborn child."

As I repeatedly say, the abortion debate is not about the woman's rights; it is about the definition of when life begins.

Answer 5

You should probably start with the judicial activism that made it illegal for the people or elected officials to decide if it should be illegal. The Supreme Court says our constitution says it should be legal based on privacy rights. The belief is that the woman's body is her own and she can do with it what she wants but for some reason this does not include her use of drugs.

Answer 6

Well the obvious anti abortionists will state that from the millisecond that an egg is fertilized by a sperm it has the rights of every human being on the planet , which includes Life, liberty and the persuit of happiness. Though it is only composed of a couple undifferentiated cells, it is the will and destiny of God and therefore should not be tampered with.

Answer 7

I don't understand why the rights of the woman (who did the deed and got pregnant in the first place) supersedes the right of the baby who had nothing to do with being conceived. When does the baby get to choice his/her desires. Oh I forgot they can't they were mutilated and killed.

Abortion is murder. Just because you can do it doesn't mean you should. I am appalled by people who cannot understand this simple concept. Plus no one ever talks about the negative health effects on the woman after she has had these abortions. They only shove "It's your Right" down her throat.

Answer 8

Death occurs when the brain function ceases.
What is the first thing created in a fetus?
Could it be the Brain stem?
If the the fetus has a brain it must be alive, and, therefore, abortion can be equated to murder but just given another name

Answer 9

Yes: it shouldn't. Although a fetus is obviously a human being from conception on, that cannot give it unlimited rights as against those of the mother, who would have to ingest an additional 50,000 calories to bring it to term, as well as be responsible for the child for years thereafter. Clearly, a compromise is necessary; that laid down in Roe v. Wade was appropriate at the time -- and still is.

Answer 10

Skippy The Wondertard is out of contol and MUST be stopped !!!!! What if the woman was Loise Lane and her baby's daddy was that little photographer guy. Go Skippy !!!!