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A 3 page paper which examines the position of “Jane Roe” today, Simon Blackburn’s perspective on abortin in “Being Good” and the case of Roe v. Wade. Bibliography lists sources.
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case that essentially legalized abortion and is the court case still cited and used in many legal cases today. The following paper examines this court case, along with the present
day perspectives of "Jane Roe" (Norma McCorvey), and an examination of Simon Blackburns take on abortion in his book "Being Good." Roe v. Wade In the court case
of Roe v. Wade Roe was a single woman and pregnant and she was essentially challenging the state of Texas and their constitution. She argued that her rights were being
infringed upon. The court claimed "the abortion statutes void as vague and overbroadly infringing those plaintiffs Ninth and Fourteenth Amendment rights" (Touro Law Center, 2004). The ninth amendment essentially states
that the state does not have the right to infringe on the rights of people. The fourteenth also argues for the rights of an individual. While there is more to
the ruling and the case than this, this is the basis for the abortion freedoms experienced today. Simon Blackburn In Simon Blackburns book "Being Good" the author addresses
many different ethics in the nation and the world and discusses abortion and issues relating to life itself. He states that, "A foetus is a potential person, certainly. But
potential is a dangerous word" (Whole Lot of Quotes, 2004). He states that a flower of a particular color is a "sort" of flower and that an acorn is potentially
a tree. He states, "My car is potential scrap, but it is not scrap, and its being potential scrap does not justify anybody in treating it as scrap" (Whole Lot
of Quotes, 2004). He then indicates that the real problem surrounding abortion is not whether a fetus is a potential being, but an actual person. "A person, on this account,
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