Term Papers on Abortion

Term Paper Title	Abortion
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Abortion

     Abortion is one of the most important issues bouncing around the legal system in this country today.  Terminating an unwanted human's life is a very sensitive concept and takes much thought.  In 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court decided to rule the ban on abortion unconstitutional, thus legalizing it nationwide.  The trial was Roe vs. Wade.       Though it abortion was made legal nationwide, many states still outlaw abortion.  These states include Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Massachusetts, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.

     Prior to the 19th century, the United States still held on to the Common Law it had adopted from England.  Connecticut was the first to adopt the abortion law, in 1821.  Abortion was labeled a felony in Connecticut.  New York was next, in 1828.  This trend continued throughout the 30's, 40's, and 50's. In the mid 19th Century, a movement began to tighten abortion regulation. Spearheaded by the medical community, by the late 1860's this movement had succeeded in establishing uniform abortion prohibition in England and throughout most of the United States. Outside of necessity to preserve the life of the mother, abortion was prohibited. These laws, or similar successor provisions, would remain in place in all fifty states until the 1960's.

During the 1960's and early 70's many states liberalized their abortion laws to some degree. Generally, this meant allowing abortion in cases of rape and incest, or for various health reasons. This was largely due to the influence of the 1962, Model Penal Code. Its inclusion of "liberalized" features was a watershed for the loosening of abortion regulations, which had, until this time, usually banned all abortions but those to save the mother's life. (However, Roe v. Wade would ultimately strike down these MPC-style laws in 1973.)  In 1967, Colorado was the first state to adopt the MPC-style statutory scheme.

In Exodus 21:22, it says, "If men strive [fight] an hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit [fetus] depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine."  This means that if a man causes a woman to have a miscarriage, he must pay a fine.  In Isaiah 49:1, it reads, "The Lord hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name."   This implies that even in the mother's womb, God knows us.

There are two sides of the abortion argument.  These are that of the ...

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