The whole issue of abortion always raises such controversy........i am generally against abortion........but the thing that happens.......is that women will go to some illegal clinic/doctor........etc.................the same thing with contraceptives................people will have sex.............before marriage.......and again.........as far as having "God" on our money......there has to be a separation of church and state.........and practicality needs to be taken into consideration...........

And, in the meantime.......raise awareness of what happens with unprotected sex..........how having sex also require responsibility........as in......i used to think getting back was fun....now i have a son.........................and adoption.......give the pregnant woman options........there are tons of couples that cannot have kids on their own...........

Opposition

Protestors at the 2009 March for Liferally against Roe v. Wade

Every year, on the anniversary of the decision, opponents of abortion march up Constitution Avenue to the Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C., in the March for Life.^[61] Around 250,000 people attended the march until 2010.^[62][63] Estimates put the 2011 and 2012 attendances at 400,000 each,^[64] and the 2013 March for Life drew an estimated 650,000 people.^[65]

Opponents of Roe assert that the decision lacks a valid constitutional foundation.^[66] Like the dissenters in Roe, they maintain that the Constitution is silent on the issue, and that proper solutions to the question would best be found via state legislatures and the legislative process, rather than through an all-encompassing ruling from the Supreme Court.^[67]

A prominent argument against the Roe decision is that, in the absence of consensus about when meaningful life begins, it is best to avoid the risk of doing harm.^[68]

In response to Roe v. Wade, most states enacted or attempted to enact laws limiting or regulating abortion, such as laws requiring parental consent or parental notification for minors to obtain abortions; spousal mutual consent laws; spousal notification laws; laws requiring abortions to be performed in hospitals, not clinics; laws barring state funding for abortions; laws banning intact dilation and extraction, also known as partial-birth abortion; laws requiring waiting periods before abortions; and laws mandating that women read certain types of literature and watch a fetal ultrasound before undergoing an abortion.^[69] In 1976, Congress passed the Hyde Amendment, barring federal funding of abortions (except in cases of rape, incest, or a threat to the life of the mother) for poor women through the Medicaid program. The Supreme Court struck down some state restrictions in a long series of cases stretching from the mid-1970s to the late 1980s, but upheld restrictions on funding, including the Hyde Amendment, in the case of Harris v. McRae (1980).^[70]

Some opponents of abortion maintain that personhood begins at fertilization or conception, and should therefore be protected by the Constitution;^[60] the dissenting justices in Roe instead wrote that decisions about abortion "should be left with the people and to the political processes the people have devised to govern their affairs."^[54]

Perhaps the most notable opposition to Roe comes from Roe herself: In 1995, Norma L. McCorvey revealed that she had become pro-life, and she is now a vocal opponent of abortion.^[71]