Norma Mcorvey Case

“I lied,” filled the courtroom walls as the plaintiff stood there in shame in front of all the juries and lawyers. Silence filled the room as she fell to the ground in tears. It was the day that changed the history of America. It was the ruling that changed women for the better, it was the 1973 case.
Norma McCorvey, better known for her pseudonym Jane Roe was on top of the headlines in 1973. Her case was the case the changed American history of women forever. Being pregnant with her third child, she realized she wasn’t financially or mentally stable for another child. Although she had two children before, they were put up for adoption, and there was no way she could have another baby. The single 21 year old mother at the time asked her doctor to get her in touch with an adoptive attorney. That attorney later connected her to pro-aborts. Here she realized her baby was about to be born, when she than visited an illegal abortion clinic in Dallas that had been abandoned years ago. She wanted to have an abortion, but she knew she couldn’t since abortion had been considered a crime for over a hundred years. Even the state of Connecticut passed a law in 1821 making abortion or any chemical used to make a miscarriage a criminal offense. However, she didn’t mind and her decision to make an
Many pro-abortion and feminist supporters couldn’t stand to hear such things. The reason behind this was because the doctors know if it is safe for the mother to have abortion. Usually if the mother is in the first trimester it’s safe to have an abortion, however going to the second trimester of the pregnancy, her health could be at risk. In 1973, the Supreme Court made a final decision, with the decision 7:2, it was affirmed for a women to have the rights to have abortion under the fourteenth Amendment of the