The Importance Of Freedom Of Speech In America

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The first amendment prohibits any law respecting an establishment of religion and abridging freedom of speech. Freedom of speech is something everyone should have it. Freedom of speech is given to every American citizen, and it should also be given to the citizens of the world. Without freedom you can't have any power, or any change. It is what people need in order for them to be at peace. All decisions we make should be our choice and we shouldn't have to abide by certain standards. Freedom is the ability to make your own choices; it is the ability to be the way you want to be. A place where freedom is very prominent is America. In America there are laws and rights for the country. The first right is freedom of speech, and to me that means that it’s the most important right. Which shows where and how they see liberty, around the world people …show more content…
The controversial concept of partial-birth abortion is defined in the Act as any abortion in which the death of the fetus occurs.”(Gonzales V. Carhart). How and what does this have to do with freedom. This is an example of not being able to do the right thing for you. Even though abortion might be morally wrong it still should be the choice of the woman, other individuals don’t have the right to say what people can do with the body. This in my opinion would make this law unconstitutional. Woman should be able to make this decision on their own because they are the ones who have to go through this situation. A woman might have been raped and the rapist might have gotten her pregnant, and the so called “American Dream” consist of a mother and a father, so why would, and why should they make a woman have to have the baby with no choice. She had no freedom in that situation and has no freedom in a governmental