Please view the video regarding abortion. Also, review your chapter 17 text and
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Question
Please view the video regarding abortion. Also, review your chapter 17 text and PPT. After review of text and video please answer the questions that follow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d50_eMKEHO8 (Links to an external site.)
Questions to be answered:
1. What is Roe v. Wade?
2. What did Roe v. Wade do?
3. Did the court find that life doesn’t begin until birth?
4. In the past four decades, haven’t people come to accept the policy of Roe v. Wade?
5. Haven’t many states banned partial-birth abortions?
6. What is Roe’s impact on society?
7. Why are abortion advocates so strongly committed to retaining Roe?
8. What would happen, in your opinion of Roe were reversed?
Explanation / Answer
Roe Wade is a single pregnant woman
Roe V. Wade is a single pregnant woman who brought to the court, the case of abortion. She was challenging the constitution of laws made the state of Texas, on abortion.
The court does not specifially state when the life begins, Some say at the fertilization of egg, and some at after the end of the first trimester.