Thoughts on the Dobbs Decision

Not a clinical issue. That's funny!!

The question is whether Americans are in favor of pro-choice or pro-life and nothing more. This is not a political issue, but a humanity one. When we are pro-life, there is no choice to be considered because the child will be born irregardless of the complications involved in childbirth; whether the mother is ready or not to give birth is not in question.

On the other hand, pro-choice give the guardian mother a chance to weighin on whether she is ready for childbirth or not. When a mother chooses to bring a child into this world, she has decided what is best for her and her family. Once the child is born, the baby has the right to live.

The rest of past, present and future is immaterial. A mother carrying an unborn child in her has the choice to decide what is best for her and her family. Most parents do not purposely kill their own children prior to birth; most parents engage in family planning.

A pregnant woman or girl must have the legal right to choose whether she can financially and support her child or not; Government interference in a prìvate decision-making, like abortion, is an invasion of privacy and the constitutional Freedom of Choice. For example, a woman is raped repeatedly by her inlaws and their friends for years. The woman is kept in captivity and threatened. She becomes pregnant by one or more of her incestuous family members and their friends. She finally gets relief when she is sent to her parents till the birth of the unborn baby with an unknown father. It is shameful and the woman is seen as a prostitute. Not wanting this baby conceived through gang rape, the woman take a decision to end her pregnancy and not carry the "baby of gang rapists" in her womb at all. Can such women be denied abortion? We, the U.S.A, is no longer a democracy or a free nation, if Government interferes to deny these unfortunate ladies their constitutional rights or to violate their privacy and freedom of choice.

"Inherent in the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is a fundamental “right to privacy” that protects a pregnant woman’s choice whether to have an abortion...In the first trimester of pregnancy, the state may not regulate the abortion decision; only the pregnant woman and her attending physician can make that decision. In the second trimester, the state may impose regulations on abortion that are reasonably related to maternal health. In the third trimester, once the fetus reaches the point of “viability,” a state may regulate abortions or prohibit them entirely, so long as the laws contain exceptions for cases when abortion is necessary to save the life or health of the mother." This is the excerpt decision of the SC in the Jane Roe v. Wade case.

The Dobbs decision by the SC undermines the landmark SC case of Roe v. Wade that served as precedent for decades. This decision violates a woman's Fourteenth Amendment rights to "Privacy", which is what abortion is indeed, and it violates the Freedom of Choice of a pregnant woman. Is Congress planning on changing the Constitution of the United States of America and undermine democracy? Let's hope this is not so.