to, the question being, " Should abortions be legal?" There are a variety of reasons why women abort. Someone who supports abortion would have you believe that many if not most abortions are because the woman was a victim of rape or incest. In 1987, over a five-month period, a survey was conducted of 1,900 women throughout the United States for Planned Parenthood on why they had abortions. The vast majority was for personal convenience 92 percent of the abortions were performed for social, economic, or personal reasons. (Guttmacher 2)There are hypocracies in the laws of the United States. In this country, a woman can walk into a licensed clinic or hospital and have her unborn baby removed with no legal repercussions for her or the doctor. Although, if this woman would have, through no fault of her own, been in an automobile accident on the way to this licensed facility and lost her baby due to this accident, the other driver would by law have been charged with fetal homicide and gone to jail. Furthermore, the woman could have sued for wrongful death and become a millionaire. The same would be true if there was no wreck and she stopped on the way at a McDonald's that was being robbed and got shot, and as a result, lost the child. As stated before, murder is illegal and abortion is murder. Therefore, Roe v. Wade should be overturned and abortion should be made illegal. It is not that simple, however. The decision in Roe v.Wade cited constitutional principles for the legality of abortion. Previous example was given to demonstrate one of many constitutional reasons for overturning Roe v. Wade. For the children, an overturning of the decision would simply save lives, but physical and psychological harm often comes to women who have abortions. After an abortion, many women experience one more of the following complications, some of which may take several years to surface. Such physical things are: excessive bleeding which may require blood ...
