There are many different choices of lifestyle and decisions that people make that everyone does not agree with. There are always controversies when it comes to the LGBT community, gun laws, and abortion. In the case Roe v. Wade, they were questioning whether the constitution contained parts that granted women the rights to get an abortion that also nullified the Texas prohibition. Some people may feel that abortions should be legal for all women to have, but I am against abortions.
Henry Wade, District Attorney of Dallas, was being sued by Roe because he was the one who enforced the law in Texas that did not grant women the right to have an abortion unless it was to save their life. “The Supreme Court had first addressed reproductive rights in a 1965 case, Griswold v. Connecticut. Griswold struck down an 1879 state law prohibiting the possession of contraception as a violation of married couples’ constitutional “right of privacy.” (Edwards 900). Jane Roe had kids already and got persuaded by friends to make false claims that she had been raped in order to be able to get her abortion. There was no proof of rape, so that plan was an ultimate fail. Later, …show more content…
The Roe v. Wade was a very significant case because it would pave the way for women to be able to have an abortion during any time throughout their pregnancy. The ruling was that women could have an abortion throughout any time of their pregnancy. However, they would grant different states to develop their own regulations when it came time to abort a pregnancy in the second and third trimesters. “Thanks to intensive lobbying by women’s organizations, liberal ministers, and physicians, a handful of states, such as New York, Hawaii, California, and Colorado, adopted laws making legal abortions easier to obtain,” (Edwards