After being the law of the land for almost 50 years, the U.S. Supreme Court in June issued a long-awaited ruling that overturned Roe vs. Wade, the milestone...
in the historic case, started it all in 1970 by paying a $15 filing fee to the U.S. District Court in Dallas.who was 22, unmarried, unemployed and pregnant for the third time in 1969 when she sought to have an abortion in Texas. By the time the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in her favor, McCorvey had given birth to a girl whom she placed for adoption.
made her living giving speeches and writing books on both sides of the abortion debate and was coached by both sides. She had conflicted feelings about each, he said, but was consistent on one point: supporting abortion through the first trimester.The plaintiff alleged that Texas law was unconstitutionally vague and violated her constitutionally protected right to personal privacy. The question before the U.S.
and allowed under limited circumstances in 16 others. Constitutional rights trump state laws, so the court’s decision nullified the bans in the remaining 30 states. But it did allow states to impose certain regulations during the second trimester to protect the woman’s health and take steps to protect fetal life in the third trimester.Blackmun was still on the court in 1992, when it heard Planned Parenthood v.
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