When a woman is pregnant, she can choose to have an abortion. When you look up abortion in the English Dictionary, the definition is “the deliberate termination of a pregnancy, usually before the embryo or fetus is capable of independent life.” Around the 20th week of the pregnancy is when the fetus can start being viable on its own. If an abortion occurs on its own, by accident, it is classified as a miscarriage. However, in my paper I will be talking about abortions that happen on purpose. “Abortion was apparently a common and socially accepted method of family limitation in the Greco-Roman world. In some countries the unavailability of birth-control devices was a factor in the acceptance of abortion.” Japan and the Soviet Union started
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There were only 5 states in the United States that abortion was legal in. She lived in Texas, and at the time it was illegal for her to have an abortion. Sarah and her boyfriend went to Mexico one weekend, and had the abortion anyway. Abortions were illegal there also, but they were a lot cheaper. She went on to graduate law school, but long after she got her degree, she still remembered how hard it was to get an abortion. She thought it was very unconstitutional, and after being an activist for many years she was determined to find a good case, that she could get the rule changed with. After a couple of years, she found what she thought would be a great …show more content…
“It was Wade’s responsibility to enforce Texas laws within his jurisdiction, and Jane Roe lived in Dallas.” (Romaine, 23) This is why it is Roe v. Wade, because Jane Roe is the plaintiff, and Henry Wade is the defendant.” John Tolle was one of Henry Wade’s assistant attorneys. Wade assigned him the Roe v. Wade case because he didn’t see it any differently than abortion cases in the past. Tolle and Wade thought they would win the case easily. However, Tolle seemed to have missed the fact that Roe’s lawyers made it a class action lawsuit. This means that even though Jane Roe wouldn’t be pregnant at trial, it wouldn’t matter. Since it’s class action, Jane Roe is representing many more people. Tolle’s case was built upon the fact that the fetus was a living person, even inside the moms womb. This premise had been proven true in court many times before. He couldn’t think of why this case would break the precedent. “The state attorney general’s office assigned attorney Jay Floyd to represent this interest and the state’s position.” (Romaine, 25) Leading up to the trial, Floyd and Tolle seldom spoke. They did however have similar defenses, emphasizing that abortions were the same as murder. On June 17, 1970 a Texas court ruled that the Texas law making abortion illegal was
There were only 5 states in the United States that abortion was legal in. She lived in Texas, and at the time it was illegal for her to have an abortion. Sarah and her boyfriend went to Mexico one weekend, and had the abortion anyway. Abortions were illegal there also, but they were a lot cheaper. She went on to graduate law school, but long after she got her degree, she still remembered how hard it was to get an abortion. She thought it was very unconstitutional, and after being an activist for many years she was determined to find a good case, that she could get the rule changed with. After a couple of years, she found what she thought would be a great …show more content…
“It was Wade’s responsibility to enforce Texas laws within his jurisdiction, and Jane Roe lived in Dallas.” (Romaine, 23) This is why it is Roe v. Wade, because Jane Roe is the plaintiff, and Henry Wade is the defendant.” John Tolle was one of Henry Wade’s assistant attorneys. Wade assigned him the Roe v. Wade case because he didn’t see it any differently than abortion cases in the past. Tolle and Wade thought they would win the case easily. However, Tolle seemed to have missed the fact that Roe’s lawyers made it a class action lawsuit. This means that even though Jane Roe wouldn’t be pregnant at trial, it wouldn’t matter. Since it’s class action, Jane Roe is representing many more people. Tolle’s case was built upon the fact that the fetus was a living person, even inside the moms womb. This premise had been proven true in court many times before. He couldn’t think of why this case would break the precedent. “The state attorney general’s office assigned attorney Jay Floyd to represent this interest and the state’s position.” (Romaine, 25) Leading up to the trial, Floyd and Tolle seldom spoke. They did however have similar defenses, emphasizing that abortions were the same as murder. On June 17, 1970 a Texas court ruled that the Texas law making abortion illegal was