Answers the following questions and support your answers with citations. Your paper should be a minimum of 1200 words. You do not need a cover sheet or a bibliography or works cited page. You do not need a title sheet.
There are twelve articles for your research. Use just these twelve–no more, no less. If you don’t use all twelve, expect to lose points. I don’t need a bibliography.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcriipts/2021/21-463_6kgm.pdf Oral Argument before the United States Supreme Court
https://legiscan.com/TX/text/SB8/id/2395961 Text of SB 8 (Links to an external site.). (It is called this because it originated in the Texas Senate.).
https://www.nytimes.com/article/abortion-law-texas.html (Links to an external site.) What the Texas SB law actually says.
https://www.ushistory.org/us/57b.asp (Links to an external site.) The Fight for Reproductive Rights.
https://www.bu.edu/sph/news/articles/2019/what-will-happen-to-womens-health-if-abortion-is-banned/ (Links to an external site.)
https://www.oyez.org/cases/1971/70-18 (Links to an external site.) Roe v. Wade, 1972.
https://theconversation.com/how-roe-v-wade-changed-the-lives-of-american-women-99130 (Links to an external site.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/04/opinion/texas-abortion-law.html (Links to an external site.) How is it anyone’s business if a woman chooses to exercise her constitutional rights?
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/10/us/politics/texas-abortion-law-facts.html (Links to an external site.) Creating bounty hunters.
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/11/01/supreme-court-texas-abortion-quotes/ (Links to an external site.)
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/11/01/Texas-abortion-restrictions-timeline/ (Links to an external site.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/03/opinion/roe-v-wade-texas-abortion-sb8.html (Links to an external site.) The playbook for overturning Roe v. Wade.
What does the 1971 Supreme Court decision guarantee? (Read the opinion. What does it say? What are the three most important aspects of the relationship between the government and women’s rights?)
What are the political implications of women controlling their own bodies? Why are there no laws controlling men’s reproductive rights? What are the political implications of women losing the ability to control their own bodies?
What are the political implications of an end to legal abortions? Is prescriiption birth control availability endangered?
What happens when states ignore Supreme Court decisions? What is nullification? What is the history of this concept? What is the future of women’s rights?
The paper grade is based on how well you manage to answer these questions, including your grammar, syntax, word usage, spelling, and submitting the paper on time. For every day the paper is late, in the event that you do submit it late, it is ten points off. I am not going plead with you to turn in your paper. You’re an adult. Turn it in on time. Remember if you are going to claim sickness–document it. If you claim you had a car wreck–document it. If you claim someone died–document it. For every day that it is late it is ten points deducted from your starting score of 100 points plus whatever mechanics of the paper are deficient.
