Roe Vs Wade

Roe Vs Wade

Roe vs. Wade



Should women have the right to have an abortion?   Well up until January 22, 1973 women didn’t have a say so.   The only way a women could have an abortion is if the pregnant mother’s life was endangered.   Jane Roe thought that women should have the right to make their own decision of weather they should keep or discard their own child.
Jane Roe was resident of Texas.   Roe was a pregnant woman who wanted an abortion.   This act could never happen because Texas law banned abortion.   Roe claimed that the law as “unconstitutional and an invasion of privacy”.   She then called up her attorney’s to challenge the Texas law.   The case was taken to the Supreme Court once in 1972.   In 1973 the court case was argued again.   Roe and a companion case from Georgia “Doe vs. Bolton” were the first, in U.S. history, to take the right to abortion to the Supreme Court.
On January 22, 1073 the court hearing began.   Roe’s attorneys, Linda Coffee and Sarah Weddington, argued that due to the Bill of Rights, women have the right to end their pregnancy.   The state has no right to disregard a human being their right to privacy.   Weddington and Coffee also declared that “no case in history has the court declared that the fetus is a person.   Therefore, the fetus can’t be said to have any legal right to life.”   In conclusion she sought that the Texas law was unconstitutional and that is she be overturned.”
Texas lawyer, Henry Wade, declared that Texas job is to protect “prenatal life”.   Life is present at the instant of notion.   The unborn child is a person and under the Constitution, Texas is allowed to protect their people.   He also claimed that “Texas law is valid exercise of police powers reserved to the States in order to protect the health and safety of citizens, including the unborn.   The law is constitutional and should be upheld.”
By a vote 7-2 the court decided that Roe won her case and endorsed women the right to abandon a...