Open web source

This article is about outlining acts and bills regarding abortion. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (U.S. representative) has tweets contained in the article. She states that it’s an infringement on personal rights. She explains how certain states’ legislature allows for no exceptions. This criminalizes abortion. The article speaks about how the age of the baby impacts the sentences (years of jail time) of doctors performing an abortion in certain states. Alabama and Ohio are the states focused on. A big portion of the argument is deciding when the fetus is a baby, making it a moral issue. People use heartbeats and trimesters to measure this. 

Source:https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-says-abortion-bans-are-a-brutal-form-of-oppression-and-are-about-controlling-womens/

Magazine article

This magazine article deals with the issue of Supreme Court justices being appointed by Trump and trying to overthrow the roe v wade decision.  As there is a majority in the Supreme Court of Republicans, decisions are easier to agree on. Checks and balances work if one party doesn’t have control of all three branches of government. The Louisiana Unsafe Abortion Protection Act is interpreted by each group to their advantage. The pro-choicers say that it protects pregnant women while pro-lifers disagree and say it values human life as unique by God. This article draws on previous decisions such as Planned Parenthood v Casey (1992) and Whole Woman’s Health v Hellerstedt (2016). 

Source:https://link-gale-com.ccny-proxy1.libr.ccny.cuny.edu/apps/doc/A624488250/STND?u=cuny_ccny&sid=STND&xid=b72c2573. Accessed 18 Sept. 2020.

Newspaper article

In this article, the main topic is how a politician’s stance on abortion can help or hider them. Republicans tend to be more religious than Democrats and look for a pro-life candidate. Statistics in this article prove that abortion rates have been going down because of various reasons. In other words, it doesn’t need additional funding unlike what pro-lifers have stated. The article then goes into depth about the stances of the different democratic candidates for the presidency. For example, vice president Joe Biden changed his stance. He wanted restrictions on abortion but altered his views and now adopted a more ”popular” opinion. 

Source:https://www.usnews.com/elections/abortion-2020

Scholarly source

In this scholarship repository, the history of feminism is outlined, from 1968 to 2013. The focus is on feminist pro-lifers and feminist pro-choicers. It creates common ground between both groups to try to better understand them. In particular to author states that she is trying to ”capture the complexity…of the pro-life feminist movement.” In other words, this article tackles if the right to abortion is an equality right. Many organizations like the SBAL, PRENDA, FFL, and the ERA are dissected. It’s important to have a wealth of knowledge about the timeline of an issue to understand it better. 

Source:https://ir.law.fsu.edu/articles/328

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