Roe VS Wade 1970

In 1970 at the Pennsylvania State House, Attorney’s Linda Coffee and Sarah Weddington filed suit in a U.S. District Court in Texas on behalf of Norma L. McCorvey ("Jane Roe"). McCorvey claimed her pregnancy was the result of rape.The defendant in the case was Dallace County District Attorney Henry Wade, representing the State of Texas.

The district court ruled in McCorvey's favor, but refused to grant an injunction against the enforcement of the laws barring abortion.The district court's decision was based upon the Ninth Amendment, and the court also relied upon a concurring opinion by Justice Arthur Goldberg in the 1965 Supreme Court case of Griswold v. Connecticut regarding a right to use contraceptives. Few state laws proscribed contraceptives in 1965 when the Griswold case was decided, whereas abortion was widely proscribed by state laws in the early 1970s.

The court issued its decision on January 22, 1973 with a 7 to 2 majority voting to strike down Texas abortion laws. Without finding what it a sufficient historical basis to justify the Texas statute, the Court identified three possible justifications in Section VII of the opinion to explain the criminalization of abortion: (1) women who can receive an abortion are more likely to engage in "illicit sexual conduct"; (2) the medical procedure was extremely risky prior to the development of antibiotics and, even with modern medical techniques, is still risky in late stages of pregnancy; and (3) the state has an interest in protecting prenatal life.

I think that women should be more careful in where she puts themselves and in what type of situation they may get themselves in. I am half and half against Abortion , But then I can see some peoples perspective on this subject , especially when a woman says no and is held against her will and ends up pregant from someone who has raped or violated her.

But if a woman is out having unprotected sex and ends up pregant then she shold decide that...