ification. In 1963, Planned Parenthood insisted that their organization did not support abortion stating, "An abortion kills the life of a baby after it has begun." (Knights of Columbus 2) Planned Parenthood is presently the self-proclaimed champion of the abortion cause. 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, the Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI) conducted a survey of 1,900 women throughout the United States for Planned Parenthood on why they had abortions. The vast majority were for personal convenience. 1% of the women surveyed had abortions because they were victims of rape or incest, 7% were attributed to threats to the mother's psychological or physical health, 92% of the abortions were performed for social, economic, or personal reasons. 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. "The [Supreme] Court declares the statutes void as vague and...
