Roe Vs Wade Research Paper

In 1973 Roe v. Wade case decision gave woman the freedom that they deserve, weather to keep their baby or choose abortion. This is a case that is 50% right and 50% wrong. Many people believe it’s killing a person, while other believe its protecting potential life. I favor both arguments depending on the reason. Therefore I think parents shouldn’t be judged on their decisions if we don’t know the behind scenes to the decisions. Abortion is a right to privacy without regard United States Supreme Court made a great decision for all the woman in the United States. This decision should be private for the parents not a decision controlled by constitution.

Roe v. Wade, the “right to privacy” remains one of abortion’s most important defenses, not to

mention the alleged reason why voters cannot be allowed to decide on abortion’s legality at the ballot box. People are making arguments about privacy allowing people to kill their babies. In one of my research articles (“Right to Privacy” is No Longer a Serious Argument for Legalized Abortion) they stated “Privacy, however, doesn’t even come close to justifying abortion on a superficial level’. Therefore, the author, Justice Harry Blackmun, wrote: “This right of privacy, whether it be founded in the Fourteenth Amendment’s concept of personal liberty and restrictions upon state action, as we feel it is, or, as the District Court determined, in the Ninth Amendment’s reservation of rights to the people, is broad enough to encompass a woman’s decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.” I totally agree with Author Harry Blackmun explaining there is no logical connection between someone’s personal privacy and actions that harm someone other than oneself.
The first hearing of the Supreme Court Case Roe v. Wade, was built from 1971. Norma McCorvey was a single pregnant woman in Texas, wanted to get an abortion. At the time, abortion was illegal in the state of Texas, they told her she would have to go to another state where abortion was legal. Norma decided to sue the state of Texas due to the fact she couldn’t afford to travel. McCorvey also claimed that her constitutional rights were being taken away from her. Apparently the court ruled in her favor, but it wasn’t strong enough verdict to change the arrest of the abortion doctor in Texas because the exact part of the Constitution that dealt indirectly with the right to privacy could not be pinpointed, and so Norma McCorvey and her lawyer, Sarah Weddington, decided to take it to the Supreme Court. From then on Norma McCorvey would be known by the generic name Jane Roe to protect the very right of privacy which she was fighting for. The council for Wade was Jay Floyd “who opened badly, and never really impressed the justices. He opened his arguments with jokes and did not have any real basis for why the Texas laws should be upheld. The judges were later said to be too harsh on Floyd who was just trying to lighten the atmosphere. In fact, neither lawyer had a real idea of where constitutionally they were going to base their argument. The Supreme Court finally decided in favor of Jane Roe.”
The Court issued its decision on January 22, 1973, with a 7-to-2 majority vote in favor of Roe, and the biggest reason why is because of Chief Justice Blackmun, who was decided upon as the speaker for the case. “(While acknowledging that the right to abortion was not unlimited, Justice Blackmun, speaking for the Court, created a trimester framework to balance the fundamental right to abortion with the government's two legitimate interests: protecting the mother's health and protecting the "potentiality of human life.")”.