Abortion Clinics and Planned Parenthood: Protests, Funding and Service

Running head: ABORTION CLINICS AND PLANNED PARENTHOOD
Abortion Clinics and Planned Parenthood: Protests, Funding and Service
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1ABORTION CLINICS AND PLANNED PARENTHOOD
Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Historical events..............................................................................................................................3
Timeline...........................................................................................................................................4
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................5
References........................................................................................................................................6

2ABORTION CLINICS AND PLANNED PARENTHOOD
Introduction
The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights obligates States to safeguard
the right to life and such obligation has been expanded to undertake measures that safeguards
women prevent unwanted pregnancies. The expansion of such obligation also requires states to
ensure that in order to prevent such unwanted pregnancies women are not subjected to unsafe
abortions that are likely to jeopardize their lives. International law has stipulated provisions that
assure that women are entitled to their right to the “highest attainable standard of physical and
mental health”. The right to health includes right of women to exercise control over their body
which further entails their reproductive and sexual freedom. Therefore, their right to health can
be construed as an obligation upon the governments to undertake reasonable measures that
ensures women have relevant information to make reproductive decisions that is, whether they
would continue with pregnancy (Human Rights Watch: Women's Human Rights: Abortion.
(2018).
The right of women to make an independent decision regarding abortion has been
subjected to numerous controversies. From the human rights perspective, international statutes
have entitled women to the right to take decisions about her pregnancy and any denial of such
rights may result in numerous human rights violations. Women have a right to access safe and
legal abortion procedures without any interference. In the USA, the landmark decision in Roe v
Wade have set a precedent for ensuring protection to all women who seeks termination of their
pregnancies. The case established the freedom of choice for women that have confined the rights
to legislators to have access to legal abortion (Human Rights Law and Access to Abortion,
2018).