In the end the emotional attachment to the fetus causes tension between the couple eventually determines the pain of having the abortion causing a break up.
Jane Roe was an unmarried, pregnant female in 1970, who lived in Texas. It was a felony during that time in Texas to abort a baby unless medically necessary to save the mother’s life. A suit was filed against District Attorney; Henry Wade from Roe contesting a statue on the grounds that it violated the guarantee of personal liberty and the right to privacy implied in the First, Fourth, Fifth, Ninth, and Fourteenth Amendments. The Supreme Court nullified any state laws that prohibited first trimester abortions. Most states harshly denied the practice of abortion after this came about. …show more content…
McCorvey known as Jane Roe, stating “that a Texas law criminalizing most abortions violated her constitutional rights”(McBride). The exception to save a mothers’ life was the only reason laws banned all abortions. Even though her life was not in jeopardy she wasn’t able to afford travel arrangements out of state to terminate her pregnancy considering it was illegal. The lawsuit filed against Wade in federal court ruled that the law breached the Constitution and was fought in the U.S. Supreme Court through 1971 and 1972. The Court ruled that the Texas statute violated Jane Roe's constitutional right to privacy with a 7-2 decision to ban the practice of abortions in most states. “The Court argued that the Constitution's First, Fourth, Ninth, and Fourteenth Amendments protect an individual's "zone of privacy" against state laws and cited past cases ruling that marriage, contraception, and child rearing are activities covered in this "zone of privacy."(McBride) It was discussed throughout the court that it was wide enough to cover a woman's choice whether to terminate or not. The decision encompassed economic stresses as well as physical and psychological …show more content…
The Court reviewed past abortion laws and found three grounds for banning abortions: "a Victorian social concern to discourage illicit sexual conduct"; protecting the health of women; and protecting prenatal life”(McBride). The first two reasons were rejected as being irrelevant to gender roles and technology, but argued that the third reason of prenatal life wasn’t in the visibility of persons, because America's laws only regard fetuses as people. Some group’s rate fetuses as persons’ with rights, however the courts ruled that Texas was only looking at one view point.
Roe v. Wade was released in January 1973, is still one of the most highly problematic Supreme Court decisions in society. No other Court cases had so much interest and conflicts around personal judgments. Certain critics accused the court of authorizing the murder of all life with insufficient support. They also stated that Roe was below par and caused worthless backlash opposing abortion rights. However, some disagree that Roe v. Wade was an impartial, practical, and principled decision preserving the rights of liberty and