"Roe vs. Wade"

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This paper discusses how, more than twenty years later, the "Roe vs. Wade" decision is still very controversial. It shows that the rights of a fetus are largely based on personal beliefs, and the necessity for abortion far outweighs these views.

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"Those who favor these less restrictive criteria for person hood believe that the mother's rights outweigh any rights of the "potential" person that the fetus might become. Unfortunately, our U.S. Constitution provides no guidance for solving this debate. The U.S. Constitution only uses the word person in such a way that it has a postnatal application. Neither does the Constitution define what is morally right or wrong. Thus, it can only be concluded that the definition of fetus is really that of a personal belief grounded mostly in religious and secular views of when life begins rather than law."

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