respond to one classmate appx 100 words law

My course is Healthcare Law:

Discussion Board is

Congratulations, you have been appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court. As the new person on the Court, you find that you are the deciding vote in a case that mirrors the facts of Roe v. Wade. It falls upon you to write the majority decision. Does the reasoning of the Court’s 1973 Roe decision prevail or do you change it? Write the legal standard for today (appx. 250 words) and support your view by Saturday.

My classmate answer

As the new person on the Court, and in having a deciding vote in a case that mirrors the facts from the Roe v Wade 1973 case, I would have to agree and allow the court’s decision to still prevail. This is because I believe that a woman should have total autonomy over her body and over her pregnancy, as a result of it being her constitutional right and ultimately her decision. In fact, because I believe that no one has the right to tell a woman what she can and cannot do with her life and/or body, I believe that women deserve safe methods of self-governing themselves because it is necessary to ensure such freedoms and rights.

With that being said, in reflecting on some of the facts that was presented within the Roe v Wade case, it should be noted that Roe’s case wasn’t the beginning of abortion in America, rather, it allowed people to access abortion legally and prevented women from dying from unsafe illegal abortions. In this regard, before abortion became legal, illegal abortions made up one-sixth of all pregnancy and childbirth-related deaths, in the 1960’s (“Roe v. Wade: The Constitutional Right,” 2018). Hence, legal abortion allowed for women to receive safe medical procedures in peace, in which helped with the enforcement of autonomy, privacy, and protection on for all women (“Abortion ProCon.org,” 2018).

Therefore, although many people are against abortion, it is still a woman’s legal right to decide the fate of her future, especially before a fetus is considered viable. However, I do believe that once the fetus is viable, the decision of the court becomes more complexed but it is overall circumstantial. Therefore, in writing a legal standard for today, as the courts did in 1973, I would have to hold that a woman’s right to an abortion falls within the right to privacy and will be protected by the Fourteenth Amendment.

Thus, as the new person on the Court, I would uphold such laws that promote women’s rights including the right to legal and safe abortion (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site., the right to birth control (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site., freedom from coerced sterilization (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. and contraception, the right to access good-quality reproductive healthcare (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site., and the right to education and access (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. because these laws help women to better make free and informed reproductive choices (“Reproductive rights,” 2018). Therefore, in considering the above information, I would most certainly implement those rights as the legal standard for today.

Please Respond to classmate (appx. 100 words) .

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