5.2 post

Roe VS Wade was a big time Supreme court case. "Jane Roe was an unmarried and pregnant Texas resident in 1970. Texas law made it a felony to abort a fetus unless “on medical advice for the purpose of saving the life of the mother.”  Roe filed suit against Wade, the district attorney of Dallas County, contesting the statue on the grounds that it violated the guarantee of personal liberty and the right to privacy implicitly guaranteed in the First, Fourth, Fifth, Ninth, and Fourteenth Amendments. In deciding for Roe, the Supreme Court invalidated any state laws that prohibited first trimester abortions."

In 1971 The Supreme Court agrees to hear the case filed by Norma McCorvey, known in court documents as Jane ROE, against Henry WADE, the district attorney of Dallas County from 1951 to 1987, who enforced a Texas law that prohibited abortion, except to save a woman's life. The Texas law had been declared unconstitutional in an earlier federal district court case. Wade ignored the decision and both sides appealed. In 1972 the case is argued before the Supreme court. In 1973 the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 7-2 decision, affirms the legality of a woman's right to have an abortion under the Fourteenth amendment to the Constitution.

This case paved the way for women rights and for  women to be in control over themselves and their bodies. This case brought to life the importance of a women making her own decisions and reaffirmed her to her constitutional rights. The reason why i chose this case, not only being a woman but because it began a revolution for women. I believe without this case and other cases women wouldnt be where they are  and wouldnt be able to excercise their rights to the full extent.