of death if she carries to term, but only a 1 percent risk of death if she aborts within the first month? Perhaps 50 percent of such risky pregnancies would end in miscarriage if no abortion were allowed. If the embryo were a “person,” the state probably could not justify increasing the fetus’ risk of death from this 50 percent to 100 percent by permitting the woman to take an abortion-inducing drug, simply to eliminate her 10 percent risk of death. Nor could a state ever knowingly permit such a woman to travel, in order to obtain an abortion, to another country. For if a fetus were to be Moen 12seen as a separate “person” in the eyes of the Constitution, letting the mother go elsewhere to abort would deprive the fetus of life In violation of the Fourteenth Amendment(Demarco 143). The implications for women, and for the law, would be staggering. Of course, the traditional immunity of women from prosecution for abortion would be untenable. Any woman who had sought an abortion would at least be liable to criminal to criminal punishment for attempted murder or for aiding and abetting the physician who performed the deed. Legalized abortion should be upheld economically because overall it helps maintain the economy of the country and its population, and governmentally based on the main ideas behind the decision in the Supreme Court Case Roe Versus Wade.Economically legalized abortion can help improve the economy in three ways. First of all, it helps lift the economic burden off of low-income families. Second of all, it helps keep unemployment rates low. Finally, it helps control population.Governmentally, abortion should remain legal because a woman and her family have a right to privacy. Second of all, there is the fetus cannot be considered a person....
