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Roe Vs. Wade Case Study

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Many Pro-Life activists believe their law is higher than any state or nation, and that they are obeying to their higher ruler of law, God. (Cauthen, 24). Most of the time, the protestors decide to gather around clinics or hospitals where abortions are normally performed, and attempt to harass the patients with threats or physically harass them. They believe that no matter what stage in the pregnancy you are in, the child is still a child. By getting an abortion, the mother is eliminating any chance for the child to make any benefits to the society and she is taking away his/her rights to live his/her life and become someone in the community. As I stated earlier in the Roe vs. Wade case the judge made a ruling stating similar, the United States …show more content…

Having a child that you don’t need in your life right now may cause stress and eventually hurt you. A study shows that women who doesn’t decided to get abortions suffer from more mental health problems than those who actually get abortions. A Sep. 2013 study comparing the mental health of women who decided to get abortions to women who denied abortions found that women who were denied abortions “felt more regret and anger” and “less relief and happiness” than women who got the abortions. (Kimport, Rocca, 13) Legalizing abortion does allow women to get control of their lives again. There is an average of 293,000 victims of rape and sexual assaults every year and, girls 12 or older. When a little girl is raped while simply walking home from school she feels dreadful. The trauma of being raped will break her down and make her depressed and that’s only the beginning. After she gets raped, she starts to feel embarrassed and her self-esteem gets low because in her eyes she doesn’t see herself as beautiful anymore. Her whole reputation has been destroyed and everyone will look down upon her, even her family reputation has been damaged and tainted. In an article called “Violence Against Women” it states “You may experience feelings that you thought you had already addressed… then you start to have

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