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This is the first 1,000 characters of 3542 words (14.17 pages) in the essay titled Roe vs Wade Roe v Wade is undoubtedly one of the Supreme Court s most controversial decisions. Handed down in January of1973, the Court declared, by a vote of 7 to 2, that abortion was a right guaranteed by the Constitution under an implied Justice Harry Blackmun, the author of the majority opinion, stated that the Constitution does not explicitly mention a right to privacy but, in varying contexts the Court or individual justices have, indeed, found at least the roots of that right. The right to an abortion was then considered an extension of this privacy right. As Blackmun stated, This right of privacy, whether it be founded in the Fourteenth Amendment s concept of personal liberty and restrictions upon state action, as we feel it is, or, as the District Court determined, in the Ninth Amendment s reservation of rights to the people, is broad enough to encompass a woman s decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy. This decision made it unconstitutional for any state to restrict abortion in most circumstances.* Because of this decision, I continually hear pro-choice advocates claim that my, and other s, opposition to Roe is uninformed and misplaced, since Roe gave women a constitutuinal right to an abortion. However, Roe v Wade, the very case which made abortion a constitutional right, is in fact, not based in the Constitution. The Court s decision is riddled with contradictions, law-making decisions ... |
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