Supreme Court Case: Norma Mccorvey's Supreme Court Case

Introduction In 1971 Norma McCorvey, filed the Supreme Court case, and in court records she is known as Jane ROE, against Henry WADE, who is the district attorney of Dallas County. Henry enforced a Texas law that banned abortion, but woman who were in danger to their health were exempted from this law. In the United States, abortion laws began to emerge in the 1820s, disallowing termination after the fourth month of pregnancy. They opposed abortion because it was a risky medical operation for women, at the time, because it threatened their health and life. Most of today 's abortion rights also state that safe and compelling birth control, decent sex education, health care, and the qualifications to support children can

She unfortuantely became out of work and depressed, having no money, she decided to pursue an abortion. After being told that abortion was legal in some cases of rape, her friends told her to lie and say that she had been raped. Since there was no police report of the fake rape, their game plan did not work. Then she went to an illegal abortion clinic but that turned out that the police closed it. Roe had no where to turn but to take it to

One point was that Roe already had given birth in 1970 and she gave her child up for adoption. He argued that because Roe already passed her first term of the pregnancy. When her case came to the supreme court, she was certainly no longer pregnant so now the case had become imaginary instead of actual, so it became outside the jurisdiction of the Court. Wade had also argued that the adjustment of abortion should be up to the states law and that the right of privacy had absolutely nothing to do with the case. In Wades view, “the Texas abortion law met the test of having a rational relation to a valid state objective." The Roe decision has broadly been looked at as a victory for women 's rights actions and a defeat for anti-abortion efforts. However, in many ways it was an arrangement between the two different sides. While anti-abortion efforts weren’t happy with the founding of a right to abortion in the first trimester of pregnancy, pro-abortion groups were also not happy with the restrictions on abortion. The Court also compromised in their decision that when a life begins and who is to be characterized as a person with the full rights under the Constitution. That did not comply with the pro-abortion development, and it was stated that technically life does not begin until birth, or pertaining with the anti-abortion movement, they support the fact that life begins at