second semester attending Grambling State university says, abortion is an important issue, but should be left up to the person. I had my first abortion when I was in 8th grade. I was way too young for a child. I dealt with it in my own way, nobody can help her ease your pain, it has to come from within. Her testimony proves that abortion is alive and well in the adolescent community. It shouldnt be, but it is now what are we going to do about it ?Roe vs. Wade is the court ruling that legalized abortion. It all began with a single woman named Jane Roe. She was unmarried, pregnant, and wanted to terminate her pregnancy by an abortion. The law in Texas then stipulated that in order to get an abortion your life had to be threatened, and Ms. Roes was not. She could not travel to another jurisdiction to get a legal and safe abortion so she decided to take it to court. She claimed that the Texas statues were unconstitutionally vague and that they abridged her right of personal privacy, protected by the First, Fourth, Fifth, Ninth and Fourteenth Amendments. Three reasons have been advanced to explain historically the enactment of criminal abortion laws in the nineteenth century and to justify their continued existence. It has been argued occasionally that these laws were the product of a Victorian social concern to discourage illicit sexual conduct. A second reason is concerned with abortion as a medical procedure. When most criminal abortion laws were first enacted, the procedure was a hazardous one for the woman. The third reason is the States interest in protecting prenatal life. Some of the argument for the justification rests on the theory that a new human life is present from the moment of conception. Only when the life of the pregnant mother herself is at stake, balanced against the life she carries within her, should the interest of the embryo or fetus not prevail. The right of privacy, whether it be founded in the Fo...
