he world, the less jobs are available, the more people become poor. This leads many poor families to go onto some sort of welfare program. This sort of trend is detrimental to a country's economy.Governmentally, pro- choice should be upheld based on any person’s right to privacy. In the Roe V. Wade federal court case seven out of nine judges ruled in favor of pro-choice based on the fact that Jane Roe had her right to privacy. Ronald Dworkin, the most influential liberal constitutional thinker of the late twentieth century, maintains that:“All have a general right , based in the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantee of due process of law, to decide for themselves ethical and personal issues arising from marriage and procreation. Abortion does not violate any fundamental human or constitutional right to life because a fetus does not have any right to be born and because the word ‘person,’ as used in the Fourteenth Amendment, does not include the unborn.”Other liberal proponents of reproductive choice derive abortion rights from the more general right not to have one’s body occupied by an unwanted, albeit innocent , invader. One version of this argument condemns restrictions on abortion for violating the right to bodily integrity protected by the due process clause of the Fourteenth Moen 9Amendment. Professors Robin West and Deborah Rhode charge that anti-abortion measures permit invasions of “the physical boundaries of the body and the psychic boundaries of a life(Hertz 45). A second version of the argument of bodily autonomy claims that pro-life policies unjustly and unconstitutionally conscript women for the good of others. Professor Cass Sunstein maintains that “the government cannot impose on women alone the obligation to protect fetuses through a legal act of bodily cooptation.” Requiring women to shoulder this responsibility is particularly offensive to the values protected by ...
