Political SocializationIntegration Activity 5

Team Awesome

Jaymee Clark

Julia Carr

Nicole Hoxie

Robin Walker

Jaymee Clark

In favor of “Repeal Don’t Ask Don’t Tell”Military influence

Julia Carr

In favor of the transition to clean affordable energy.

FAMILY!

Let’s go vote kids!

Nicole Hoxie

In favor of lowered health care costMedia Influence

Robin Walker

In Favor of a Woman’s Right to Choose

Personal or Legal?

Roe vs. Wade

Roe v. Wade (1973), was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on the issue of abortion. The Court held that the constitutional right to privacy extends to a woman's decision to have an abortion, but that right must be balanced against the state's two legitimate interests for regulating abortions: protecting prenatal life and protecting the mother's health. Noting that these state interests become stronger over the course of a pregnancy, the Court resolved this balancing test by tying state regulation of abortion to the mother's current trimester of pregnancy:

• In the first trimester, the state's two interests in regulating abortions are at their weakest, and so the state cannot restrict a woman's right to an abortion in any way.

• In the second trimester, there is an increase in the risks that an abortion poses to maternal health, and so the state may regulate the abortion procedure only "in ways that are reasonably related to maternal health" (defined in the companion case of Doe v. Bolton).

• In the third trimester, there is an increase in viability rates and a corresponding greater state interest in prenatal life, and so the state can choose to restrict or proscribe abortion as it sees fit ("except where it is necessary, in appropriate medical judgment, for the preservation of the life or health of the mother").

President Obama

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hym1BW7Ep2A

Who Influenced Me?

• Mom

My Body