Megan King
Partisanship within Legal Abortion
Laws
With Congress being bi-partisan and dealing with
controversial topics like the legalization of Abortion, a topic like this can
be subjected to the rejection or acceptance from the public on the policies
that Congress. In Congress, this debate is complicated none the less because
the public does support abortion thus in the Supreme Court decision on Roe v.
Wade, the public does not wish to overturn
the outcome on the case; not to mention that the public also wants it illegal
in certain places (Doherty et al). Democrats say abortion should be “legal in
most cases (45%) than in all cases (30%) “ (Doherty et al). Republicans
however, their majority vote for abortion is in favor of having abortion being
illegal. Then, there are the voters that don’t agree with either parties, specifically
regarding their take on how to deal with the policies regarding abortion (Doherty
et al). This means representation is very critical in this problem because any
future laws involving the legality of abortion due to the need for specificity
of the policies that only the majority would be satisfied thus, not going to
Town Hall’s and having riots that would be an issue for Congress. Demographics
are a huge factor with representation because each representative is supposed
to reciprocate their location and populations ideology, which if they put
legislation through, and the populous doesn’t like the policy the
representative isn’t reelected which can happen with the election cycle coming
up.
The issue about abortion is a perplex debate but I believe
people are concerned on whether or not the fetus is developed and if the fetus
has a heartbeat. Therefore, there are other people in the public who are
concerned with the implications of the heartbeat which in some cases women do
not know the terms of the development of the baby until later in the pregnancy.
The debate can go many directions on how or why women should get an abortion,
and ultimately it is up to the women. In general, not just in politics, the
debate also includes differences in age, education, and religion (Doherty et al). People over 50 are not likely to support
abortion while people under 50 are more likely to support abortion however;
people with higher education are more likely to support higher education (Doherty
et al Demographics comes back because factors like age, education, and religion
they are not the only contributors to why women can or cannot have an abortion.
An article titled, “Our Broken Constitution” by Jeffrey Toobin
demonstrates the main point of the pros and cons of the current American
constitution; thus perspectives by Professors and professionals who have made a
career in politics that share their perspectives on what that means for the
United States, in the present and in the future. A few connections in the articles
that continue to develop my argument is by Levins, a constitutionalist, that
the constitution is a great design, but it is not the type of document of
representation that the United States needs in this present era. Not to
mention, Levin’s describes the Senate as being a body that the Founders never
intended the majority vote to control everything and the Senate is suppose to
be undemocratic, which may be still true but I think with different influence
women are trying to make improvements to the Senate.
The image I
chose to capture my argument is a graph of how states have a limit on when certain
States ban abortions. This is important because sometimes women do have to go
to other states in order to have the process completed. With the broader
picture of women’s representation, is an article by Li Zhou titled, “It’s
Official: a record-breaking number of women have won seats in Congress” which
is historic because women are underrepresented in the political world. It will
make a mark in women’s health care when women are representing women instead of
just having older men not caring about women’s experiences in the world. Not to
mention, Zhou points out that the more women in Congress, it will change
stereotypes and even rebel against Trump’s administration who are anti women.
In conclusion, there was a lot of
information and trying to connect a lot of concepts together. The main point of
the main article I was focusing by Doherty et al. was focusing not only on the
statistics of what Democrats and Republicans favor, but the complexity of how
to get votes to make sure the public is satisfied with the result, which in
politics not everyone will agree. Therefore, the case Roe v. Wade is just one
example that shows that the public agrees with the party they affiliate with. Representation
in government is crucial to the voting within re-elections and voting cycles
because if a representative is not going with the values of the demographics of
the people in the place they represent, they aren’t going to be reelected. The
article by Toobin represents that looking at the constitution, there is a lot
of things that the Founders didn’t know that current politics has gone the
direction that is present, but there is not enough checks and balances to have
effective democratic practices and representation of people who aren’t white
and male. The other article by Zhou demonstrates the challenges that
representation of women is now being encouraged thus, no one can know what
Congress will look like in the future when more women are being elected into
office however; women’s health care will be better established in lawmaking
when women can be there to facilitate those conversations. With abortion, yes,
it is complicated, and no one can speak for women’s reproductive rights other
than women thus, it will take a long time before there is a majority agreement
on what to do with this issue.
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