Pro-Choice Abortion

Thirty-four percent of young women will become pregnant at least one time before they reach the age of twenty. One in ten high school students was forced to have sexual intercourse by someone when they were not willing. Although the teen pregnancy rate has decreased in the last decade, out of every 1000 teens, 84 of them will get pregnant. (Kaiser Family Foundation). Women didn’t receive rights in their marriages until spousal abuse became commonplace in the American Household. Women’s suffrage came late in the 1920’s, with the passage of the 19th amendment. Women's attempting to win equality have included women's suffrage, feminist movements, women's property rights, equal opportunity in work and education, and equal pay. For years, Women have struggled against the social ideas that label them the weaker sex. And now in a modern age, one of gay marriage, of handheld computers, of social liberation from pre-established norms. Women must fight for the right to their own bodies. The plea that I proceed to make is not one in favor of death but one that enumerates choice. As women of a modern era evolve and progress to fit an ever-changing world, the barriers that stand in the way of free choice must be broken down. Else a progressive society will undoubtedly, become stunted and stagnant. If the female CEO’s, public service workers, educators and students alike cannot count on inalienable rights to their own bodies, what other liberties must they forsake?

The Due Process Clause of the 14th amendment protects against state action and the right to privacy, including the right for a women to terminate her pregnancy. The right of privacy is broad enough to include a women’s decision to terminate her pregnancy. This right, was based upon the Fourteenth Amendment’s concept of personal liberty, along with the Ninth Amendment’s reservation of rights to the people. (Roe v. Wade, page 83). With the help of the court case Roe vs. Wade, on January 22,...