Week 2 EOC: Supreme court

 

Throughout the next couple of months various issues will be occurring in the Supreme Court for example, Same-Sex Marriage, Voting Rights, and Abortion Rights. Same-sex marriage or in other words “The marriage act” issue is that the “Federal Defense of Marriage Act violates equal protection guarantees in the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause, as applied to same-sex couples legally married under the laws of their own state. The issue with Voting Rights or in other words, “Shelby County, AL v. Holder; Nix v. Holder” are the “Continued use by the federal government of the key enforcement provision of the landmark voting Rights Act of 1965.

 

“ The last issue I chose is Abortion Rights or “Oklahoma v. Barber”. The issue is that “Constitutionality of state "personhood" laws saying life begins at conception, and giving human embryos the rights and privileges of citizens.” In my personal opinion I am for abortion rights I firmly believe that every woman has the right to decide whether or not to carry a child, there may be many circumstances why a woman would abort for example incest rape even. I feel that the personhood law would just cause more chaos, in the way that there will be more orphans mistreated children (child abuse).

 

There’s always a way around the law and people will eventually find it, I think that if they were to approve that law people would just got to a different country to get it done anyway. I feel that morally it’s a life but rationally it’s just a fertilized egg, there no form of a child yet. Why carry an unwanted child that is just going to come to this earth and suffer. Just like the argument side of the “Supporters of the measure say voters should be given the right to decide a critical issue like defining life, and said it was unfair for the courts to block the law before it was enacted. Opponents counter it would essentially block abortions even in case of rape, incest, or when the mother's life was in danger. They also say it would severely restrict use of contraception and in vitro fertilization.”

http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2012/10/politics/scotus.cases/index.html