Roe v. Wade
The United States is governed by laws that are suppose to protect the rights of all Americans. The people that interpret these laws are the nine black robed officials more commonly known as the United States Supreme Court. This selected group of officials are responsible for many of the upheld and newly developed laws that they have decided are constitutional. One of the many examples of the United States Supreme Court rulings is the case of Jane Roe going up against the Dallas attorney Henry B. Wade.
The very famous and influential case of Roe versus Wade does not start off in front of the Supreme Court. This story goes back a little bit over a century before the Roe versus Wade case. The abortion laws in the state of Texas Texas …show more content…
This is the less famously known name of the person more popularly known as Jane Roe. Norma McCorvey was a twenty one year old pregnant woman that had already had two girls that she gave up for adoption. She heard about abortion, but thought that an abortion was not killing a baby, but making the pregnancy never happen. When she went to get the abortion she found out that you can not have an abortion in Texas unless the pregnancy is life threatening. Henry McCluskey, the adoption attorney, told McCorvey to go to the young lawyers Linda Coffee and Sarah Weddington. They met at a pizza bar and that is where Weddington decided to take up McCorvey’s issue in the state of court. They felt like McCorvey would be the best person to represent the average woman that needs to be able to have a choice when it comes to having an abortion. Norma McCorvey then decides to take on the new name Jane Roe, and her abortion case is going to be brought up in court. Even though McCorvey is the first name in this major abortion case; she still has never had an abortion in her life. By the time that the Roe versus Wade trial ended McCorvey already had her third …show more content…
The other eight United States Supreme Court Justices during the Roe versus Wade case were William Rehnquist, Louis F. Powell, Jr., Potter Stewart, Harry Blackmun, William J. Brennan, Jr., Thurgood Marshall, Byron White, and William O. Douglas. The Supreme court 's decision was abortion cannot be outlawed with a decision of seven to two. These justices found abortion to be legal under the fourteenth amendment which talks about citizen rights. They declared that laws against abortion are unconstitutional and should be removed from Texas and every other state that has laws preventing women from getting abortion. This is the start of a dispute amongst American. We now have strong pro life and pro choice people that are all very passionate about where they stand on the matter of
The United States is governed by laws that are suppose to protect the rights of all Americans. The people that interpret these laws are the nine black robed officials more commonly known as the United States Supreme Court. This selected group of officials are responsible for many of the upheld and newly developed laws that they have decided are constitutional. One of the many examples of the United States Supreme Court rulings is the case of Jane Roe going up against the Dallas attorney Henry B. Wade.
The very famous and influential case of Roe versus Wade does not start off in front of the Supreme Court. This story goes back a little bit over a century before the Roe versus Wade case. The abortion laws in the state of Texas Texas …show more content…
This is the less famously known name of the person more popularly known as Jane Roe. Norma McCorvey was a twenty one year old pregnant woman that had already had two girls that she gave up for adoption. She heard about abortion, but thought that an abortion was not killing a baby, but making the pregnancy never happen. When she went to get the abortion she found out that you can not have an abortion in Texas unless the pregnancy is life threatening. Henry McCluskey, the adoption attorney, told McCorvey to go to the young lawyers Linda Coffee and Sarah Weddington. They met at a pizza bar and that is where Weddington decided to take up McCorvey’s issue in the state of court. They felt like McCorvey would be the best person to represent the average woman that needs to be able to have a choice when it comes to having an abortion. Norma McCorvey then decides to take on the new name Jane Roe, and her abortion case is going to be brought up in court. Even though McCorvey is the first name in this major abortion case; she still has never had an abortion in her life. By the time that the Roe versus Wade trial ended McCorvey already had her third …show more content…
The other eight United States Supreme Court Justices during the Roe versus Wade case were William Rehnquist, Louis F. Powell, Jr., Potter Stewart, Harry Blackmun, William J. Brennan, Jr., Thurgood Marshall, Byron White, and William O. Douglas. The Supreme court 's decision was abortion cannot be outlawed with a decision of seven to two. These justices found abortion to be legal under the fourteenth amendment which talks about citizen rights. They declared that laws against abortion are unconstitutional and should be removed from Texas and every other state that has laws preventing women from getting abortion. This is the start of a dispute amongst American. We now have strong pro life and pro choice people that are all very passionate about where they stand on the matter of