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Week 3 Assignment: Roe vs. Wade HSM 542 – Health Rights & Responsibilities. Week 3 Written Assignment Should a Pregnant Woman Be Punished for Exposing Her Fetus to Risk? Week 3 Assignment: Roe vs. Wade A series of legal issues in the context of expression of a woman is pregnant is dangerous for t...

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Week 3 Assignment: Roe vs. Wade 1

HSM 542 – Health Rights & Responsibilities.




Week 3 Written Assignment

Should a Pregnant Woman Be Punished for Exposing Her Fetus to Risk?




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, 2 Week 3 Assignment: Roe vs. Wade

A series of legal issues in the context of expression of a woman is pregnant is

dangerous for the unborn child of her. The most important aspect of this topic is the

balance between protecting the lives of pregnant women and the unborn child and the

autonomy of decision-making process. These issues are tough to decide. Those related to

ethics and law sometimes seem contradictory. When considering this question should be

objective with the enforcement of policies and legislation for the unborn child should be

protected.

Similar to the argument of abortion, cases often entrenched in the concept of what

is considered a child or differentiation of terminology involving what found to a viable

life form (PBS, 2014). This thinking led to the limitations decided in Row vs. Wade (Roe

vs. Wade, 2014). However, the concept of viable life was determined on the basis for

termination of a pregnancy which is different than policies and laws that assume a crime.

The argument for protective laws for a fetus founded in the concept of protecting the

unborn fetus, but however well-intentioned this idea is it violates specific tenants of law

and ethics.

Legally speaking, any law that attempts to protect an unborn fetus (such as a drug

using mother) assumes that the mother has committed a crime based on the potential for

harm. While it is widely known that the use of drugs during pregnancy can lead to harm

of the unborn this potential is not a certainty. Assuming that harm is being done to the

unborn, there is also the problem of a legal statute for determination of a crime. The two

primary elements of determining crime pertinent to this case include intent and

concurrence. The element of a crime "No crime without intent" states that a person must

be intentional in their commission of a crime to be charged. This means that a prosecutor




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