Assessing the future of abortion rights in the US 20 Articles

by Michele Jackson

The right to an abortion will cease to exist in the United States of America probably within the next twenty years. The April 2007 U.S. Supreme Court decision Gonzales v. Carhart has changed the course of abortion-rights h...read more

by A. South

Abortion has been legal in the United States for 35 years but it has never been without controversy. Though the legalization of abortion will not likely change, laws surrounding abortion are always a matter of debate. ...read more

by Carol Levy

Section. 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for a crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. ...read more

by Paul Schingle

This is exactly the kind of topic that has one title, but many helium writers decide to use as a soapbox to espouse their own personal views on the subject. The question isn't : "Is abortion right or wrong?" not is it: "W...read more

by Brenda Bowers

The law giving women the right to abort their unborn children (Roe vs Wade) has been the one most controversial Supreme Court judgments ever made. It is an issue on which opponents can find no middle point on which they...read more

by Michael Cibenko

[The following was written in response to an article by Meghan Daum in the L.A. Times entitled, "Why not give fathers a right to choose?" Her article asserts that a man who fathers a child should have the "right" to walk ...read more

by Brenda Jones

I'm politically incorrect. Consequently, abortion rights in the US are a subject I approach from a Bible-toting, fire-and-brimstone perspective. Not judgmental or condemnatory. I simply view life from the perspective of th...read more

by Carol Wise

It is sad that after the hard fought battle of Roe vs Wade, some continue to have the need to attempt to moralize for others. To force their beliefs onto others even if that means having a drastic negative impact. Why shou...read more

by Bobbie Pinchak

"No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;" ...read more

by Crystal Lake

Ever since, and perhaps even before, the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion, the legal status of the abortion procedure has been saturated with controversy. There are those who claim that abortion is not a r...read more

by Can Tran

The future of abortion rights is a pretty touchy subject for both the Republicans and the Democrats. Because there are pro-choice people in the Democratic and Republican party. At the same time there are pro-life people ...read more

by Jerry Curtis

Abortion rights activists might be offended by this comparison, but there is an eerie historical parallel between the 18th century debates over slavery and today's dispute over abortion. Southern slave owners before the Ci...read more

by Ms. D. Bleu

As an African-American female living in the United States, I realize that I live two realities every day. The first reality is that I am a person of color and the accompanying forms of discrimination that face me as a res...read more

by Will Kester

ASSESING THE FUTURE OF ABORTION RIGHTS IN THE U.S. I'm going to bet that most are of the opinion that women's rights to an abortion are doomed, sometime in the near future. I once said that under the Republican domin...read more

by Matthew Spearman

The future of abortion rights in this country appears bleak, at best. Chief Justice Roberts, who joined the court at the same time as the states' rights swing vote on this issue, Sandra Day O'Connor exited, holds no love ...read more

by Sammie Banks

Debating a scenario of future rights is resting upon a weight of detrimental effect. Abortion rights, in particular, carry a range of emotions both vast and spiritual to any and all that are intertwined in this web. To n...read more

by Samuel Smith

Abortion Rights. Well first let me tell basically what an abortion is. It is the act/process of removing/destroying (destroying since it cannot be killed since it hasn't even been born!)an unborn child (the fetus) from the...read more

by Jennifer Mercer

If you want to look at abortion from a political standpoint, it is simply a matter of competing rights. The first right is the right of the mother to do with her body as she pleases. The second right is the right of the b...read more

by Chaz Z.

Let us quit these word games. It is not abortion "rights." It is the literal, physical and legal execution of little "people" who cannot yet speak for themselves. With all of our technology today, we have finally reached ...read more

by Cretia Ussery

I wish that this topic would address some cold hard facts that is backed by science and not emotion. The fact of the matter is the fetus is much more developed at an early stage than ever thought during the Roe vs Wade dec...read more