Those who oppose the abortion rights and call themselves pro-life claim the abortion as a criminal act. ... The embryo is not equal to a person. ... We can not say that the baby is equal to an embryo ( Currie 32 ). ... Kate Michelman, president of the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League says: "We never spend time on the moral responsibility in childbearing" (Gorden). ... Today the abortion issue has become a conflict over whether the unborn should have the same rights as the born, or whether a woman's rights to control her life and body incl...

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Those who oppose the abortion rights and call themselves pro-life claim the abortion as a criminal act. ... The embryo is not equal to a person. ... We can not say that the baby is equal to an embryo ( Currie 32 ). ... Kate Michelman, president of the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League says: "We never spend time on the moral responsibility in childbearing" (Gorden). ... Today the abortion issue has become a conflict over whether the unborn should have the same rights as the born, or whether a woman's rights to control her life and body incl...

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To many this might means nothing, but a closer look at this issue and it relates to all of us because it infringes on our God given rights and the rights given to us by our founding fathers of the Constitution. ... The Supreme Court found that through the Bill of Rights as applied to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment in the case of Roe v. ... This goes against our specific rights found in the Bill of Rights, that include the First, Third, Fourth, Ninth, and Fourteenth Amendments. The Amendments are rights of ours that should be carried out by equal protection right and due process...

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I am writing you on my regards of abortion. I feel it's wrong and it should be made illegal. There are many reasons I feel it's wrong to have an abortion. First, it is killing a person of your own. A child that you have conceived should have just as much equal rights as anybody else. Second, If tw...

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Woman have benefitted from individuals that have fought for human rights such as Roe versus Wade. ... I have been accepted into this program openly and feel that I am looked at as an equal in the class, even though the ratio is 10 percent female and 90 percent male. ...

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The fetus is a real human being and deserves all the rights and freedom given to people under the Constitution. This right is evident in the Fourteenth Amendment that states, The State shall not deprive any person of life, liberty, property, without due process of the law; nor deny any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the law (Harrison). Abortion denies babies equal protection under the law, and is depriving a person of life. Thomas Jefferson stated human rights best when he wrote, We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, that they are endow...

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According to the Declaration of Independence, "All men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with inherent and inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." (Jefferson 117) The child has a right to life that is equal to the mother's right. ...

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Politically, conservative believes that the proper task of a government is to protect the "rights" of the fetus or embryo, that is violated by selfish act and since the mother by having abortion is allegedly using force against the fetus, therefore it is justified that the government can use force to stop women from having an abortion. The reason why conservative consider that the fetus has rights is that it has the same genetic codes as humans; the same number of chromosomes, it is programmed by nature to become a human being. To them the embryo is a potential status that is equal to moral s...

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The fetus is a real human being and deserves all the rights and freedom given to people under the Constitution. This right is evident in the Fourteenth Amendment that states, "The State shall not deprive any person of life, liberty, property, without due process of the law; nor deny any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the law" (Factbot). Abortion denies babies equal protection under the law, and is depriving a person of life. Thomas Jefferson stated human rights best when he wrote, "We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, that they are end...

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Regardless of anyone's feelings about an embryos" or fetuses" rights or of women, sex and responsibility or of God, Karma or of the Bible, one cannot over look the fact that women have always used abortion to prevent child birth and always will. ... Anti-abortionists argue that an embryo is a human and is entitled to the same rights as anyone else, including the women carry it. ... Any law that defines an embryo as a person with equal right to, or greater than, that of a women's is illogical. ... (Sykes) A women is more than an embryo and therefore should have greater rights then...

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Females have battled society for "women's rights" for centuries. ... Women have overcome many struggles such as, the right to vote in elections, equal opportunity in the work force, and even the control over their own bodies. ... The American Birth Control League was an organization, founded in 1921, designed to support women's rights to take control over their own bodies. ... Women's rights on birth control were a major struggle and have definitely revolutionized all women and society as a whole. ...

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Wade case legislative order declared not allowing women to have an abortion, a violation of a woman's privacy rights. ... Abortion should be banned because it violates unalienable rights, and is a taking of a human life. ... This principle of due process logically supports my stand because the Constitution protects individual rights. ... 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; nor deny to any person within juris...

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Abortion is a civil rights, a human rights issue, and the basic right to life of all humans must be protected but is it equal protection? ... This creates a moral dilemma for the defender of abortion rights. ... Do men have a say in abortion rights or is it just a woman's choice? ... The story made national headlines, and the issue of fathers' rights came to the forefront. ... When asked if the man and woman should have an equal say in the decision, 80% of married men agreed compared to 58% of single men. ...

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From the start, either the Supreme Court has steered the debate, by shutting out lawmakers or, now, by their involvement in defining abortion rights. ... A new controversy about abortion, is to focus on equal rights for women, must also address the rights of men. Reframing the rights to an abortion in terms that make explicit the issues of sexual pleasure and personal responsibility as a right to choose whether to assume responsibility for a human life conceived out of sexual desire without the desires of children makes clear that men too must be afforded rights with respect to some aspects of...

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CORE 1 analyzes civil rights as well as equal treatment for women in America. Abortion challenges the civil rights of the mother and the fetus which she bears. To deny abortion is denying the mother certain civil rights, but if the fetus is considered a person, then the rights of the fetus are being denied by allowing abortion to be legal. ... Wade case developed the needed boundaries to determine the legal rights of the mother and fetus. ... I am sure these people wonder why the fetus doesn't have rights as well as the mother. ...

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Abortion goes against the belief that all people were created equal, and able to pursue life, liberty and happiness that our country was founded upon. ... Abortion is wrong because it deprives the baby of rights and happiness because of the suffering it must go through during the abortion. ... The people of the US must start standing up for the rights of all people, born and unborn. ...

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The final conclusion that must be drawn is that "neither the mother nor the fetus has prior rights to life: they have equal rights to life, because each is equally a human person. ... Does it have rights which must be respected? ... They have no rights until they exist apart from the mother, i.e., at birth. ... But the function of the law is to protect rights " not to dictate moral issues which involve no violation of rights (Media Link)."" ... The pro-abortion standpoint seems to concentrate on a very literal definition of rights. ...

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History and experience alike have shown us that when the government tries to deny people their human rights, in order to solve a problem, it almost always causes greater problems and does nothing to resolve the first problem. ... He insists, "We must come to see that, as the federal courts have consistently affirmed, it is wrong to urge an individual to cease his efforts to gain his basic constitutional rights because the quest may precipitate violence" (445). ... They are being denied their rights as human beings. 5 Furthermore, besides having to pay extreme fines that they may...

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Another good point that Thomson made was the fact that every one has equal justice. ... Of course a decent and healthy mother would bear her child but she is not obligated to because her rights as a person override the rights of a fetus, whose status is undeterminable. ... Pro-choice is important because it protects the rights of vulnerable women that need abortions. ...

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The principal of impartiality is the moral point of view that all persons are considered equal and should be treated accordingly.... Some may ask if the issue on abortion has to do with the mother's rights or the unborn child's rights. ... I believe a fetus is a person who is an entity with full moral rights. ...

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Liberalists believe that since the fetus does not resemble an actual person until later in birth or until after birth, its rights are in the hands of its creator, the mother. ... Conservatives believed that if you were conceived from human parents you are now a human being who holds the same or equal rights as any other human being. ... A fetus a creation of life by two people who are responsible and hold rights that overpower the right of the unborn fetus. ...

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The unborn fetus should have the same rights as you and me. Since the unborn fetus has the same rights as you and me, then it should be protected by the cruel and unusual punishment clause of the 8th amendment to the constitution. ... This would cause a problem in the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment. ... Think about it, maybe the next aborted fetus had the potential to be the person to find the cure for cancer, but this potential is lost if the child is refused the right to live which is one of the most important rights that this country promotes....

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., "Twenty years and 30 million abortion deaths ago, the Supreme Court arrogantly ignored the dictum of the Declaration of Independence 'that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights', and imposed its own dictum that taking a child's life by abortion is a constitutional 'liberty' " (1). ...

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I will consider when life begins, human rights of the mother and the child and lastly if abortion has been justified by the impact that it has had on society. ... That all-human life is of equal value and abortion is evil and therefore should always be forbidden. ... As far as human rights are concerned I think that the health of the mother depending on her circumstances should always come before the life of the unborn embryo. ...

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As Alan Keyes says, "Whether a life is a human life, entitled to respect for all the basic, inviolable rights of humanity - this is a critically important judgment." ... If the fetus is a human then it is entitled to live under the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, saying that it is as equal as any other person. ...

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