Victory of Abortion rights, 2016: Supreme Court

Victory of Abortion rights

The conservative leadership in Congress, along with every member of their presidential candidates, opposed women’s right to safe and legal pregnancy termination. In spite of political association, majority of Americans supported access to safe and legal termination of pregnancy. Strikingly, Republicans in the House of Representatives had voted 11 times in the existing Congress to limit women’s access to health care like contraception and to buy abortion pill.

It is believed that every woman should be able to make her own decisions regarding her pregnancy. It should be completely dependent on her whether to end it, without judgment, harassment, shame, or intimidation and indeed without any political interference.

Abortion barriers:

Today, the 43rd Anniversary of Roe V. Wade reminds us of the life before the right to legal and safe abortion guaranteed by the U.S Supreme Court for single women, married women, older and young women. Females should be able to freely purchase abortion pill online in order to terminate unwanted pregnancy at home or in a clinic.

 A view is being considered that many women throughout the country could be forced to return to those appalling, barbarous circumstances.  Already the female population faces too many barriers to access an extra care like breast cancer screening, birth control, exist for poor-income women and women of color. Before, the Supreme Court’s hearing regarding the biggest abortion case in decades, the access to safe and legal abortion was highly at stake.

Supreme Court’s decision:

In June 2016, on the last decision day, the Court announced a 5-3 decision in favor of law’s challengers and women’s health. One of the justices stated that courts must rely on hard evidence in balancing the interests of the state with the constitutional rights for the woman.  He also concluded that abortion is extremely safe with particular low rates and virtually no deaths occurring in an account of procedure.

The victory characterizes a strong confirmation of abortion rights and a rejection to past deference given to legislatures. Abortion opponents stayed mum about where to go next. In Texas, where the road to re-opening closed clinics remained long, state officials promised to go through the decision step by step to create new regulations the Supreme Court might accept. However, some anti-abortion groups announced their intention instead of double waging the banning ban on common abortion procedures, these opponents used the Republican national platform to push through extremely harsh and severe language on a constitutional anti-choice amendment, ban on fetal tissue research and de-funding abortive services.

Nonetheless, the President-elect Trump had expressed a strong opposition to pregnancy cancellation except in cases of rape, incest, and when the life of mother or unborn child is in danger. In March 2016, he spoke in a well-known news channel’s talk show that who induce abortions should face some sort of legal punishment, but rapidly walked that claim back after backlash. Since, Trump being a pro-life supporter, it seems that women’s reproductive rights might be endangered in near future.