The Conflicting Jurisprudence Behind the Laws on Abortion

Abstract

The abortion involves the most intimate and personal choices a person may make in a lifetime, choices central to personal dignity and autonomy. Protecting access to abortion effectuates vital constitutional values, including dignity, autonomy, equality, and bodily integrity. This is something central to a woman's life, to her dignity. It's a decision she must make for herself. And when the government controls that decision for her, she's being treated as less than a fully adult human responsible for her own choices. Without the right of reproductive choice, women cannot participate equally in the nation's social, political and economic life. Their freedom to decide whether and when to have children opens doors that would otherwise be closed. Through this paper, we have tried to address how various arguments of pro-life supporters are wrong and how the arguments of pro-choice supporters are in accordance with the human conscience.

Keywords: Abortion, personal dignity, autonomy, reproductive rights