“I am pro-choice and I choose life. What do you choose; life or death?” Cardinal O’Conner spoke these compelling words during a debate on abortion. People have come to say that one can either be pro-life or pro-choice. However, Cardinal O’Conner made everyone realize that everyone is Pro-choice; it’s just a matter of whether one was to choose life or death. (O'Conner, n.d.) Abortion is a controversial topic that has been around well before the Roe vs. Wade case, it just became a more well-known topic during and after the case, not only was the Roe vs. Wade case a big matter over abortion but the Tate vs. Manson case deals with abortion as well. People tend to play abortion off as though it’s a woman’s right of choosing what she wants for her body, that there isn’t a life in their womb and there is no emotional or physical effect on the woman after the abortion is performed. On December 13, 1971, Jane Roe, a single pregnant woman, fought in a court of law over the constitutionality of the Texas Criminal Abortion Laws. The Texas criminal’s laws prohibited a woman, single or married, from getting an abortion unless it was to save the life of the mother. Jane Roe and her lawyer attacked the Texas Criminal abortion laws, saying they went against people’s ninth and fourteenth amendment rights. The ninth amendment states the enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. This means that a person’s rights can’t be altered. The fourteenth amendment states the rights of citizenship. This meaning that people have the right to basically do what they choose, in the means of the law. Roe used these amendments to her defense. The ninth amendment protected her fourteenth amendment rights. Those rights allowed her to have an abortion because they allowed her to do with her body as she chooses. Granted, any person does have the right to do with their body as they please, but they also need to be aware of the consequences that come along with these choices, which does include becoming pregnant and the feelings that come along after having an abortion. The U.S. Supreme Court, after a long period of time, came to a decision in January 1973 which legalized abortion because of the amendments that protected Jane Roe’s rights. The question is who was to protect the rights of the unborn child. There are millions of people that make the conscious decision to have sex. They choose to have sex knowing the consequences that come with that, is possibly becoming pregnant. It’s obvious that not everyone is going to remain celibate, but why would one choose to have sex when they are not ready to deal with the chances of coming pregnant. It’s not the unborn child’s fault that a “mistake” was made; why punish that baby. There are other options, outside of murder, that could help a woman who is not ready to be a mother. Those options include, but are not limited to, parenting, interim foster care, or adoption. Clearly, if a woman is not ready to be a mother, that that woman will not be taking the parenting route. However, there have been circumstances when the birthing mother carries the baby to term and she begins to get a natural motherly bond throughout the pregnancy and may reconsider parenting. Interim foster case provides the woman with extra time to decide what she wants to do, whether it be parenting or choosing adoption or the type of adoption