In 1971, the most significant court case took place which was Roe v. Wade. Jane Roe was a resident of Texas wanted to have an abortion. Roe believed that the state of Texas laws conflicted with a women’s right to choose. During the pregnancy, Roe did not have any issues that would her threaten her life and make abortion legal for her. The laws in Texas stated that all abortions were illegal except those that save the pregnant women’s life. In 1971, Roe took her case to the Supreme Court requesting that women have the right to choose for an abortion. After three years of debate the Supreme Court ruled that a women’s right to an abortion was legal because it fell under a “women’s privacy”. The term women’s privacy encompassed services available
