Court Cases Against Abortion

Abortion
On January 22, 1973, the united states supreme court ruled that a woman has a constitutional right to terminate an unwanted pregnancy before the fetus acquires viability. Also stating that a Fetus is not a person under the fifth and fourteenth amendments. Before the decision abortion was illegal in all US, although the majority of states permitted abortion only when necessary to save the life of the pregnant woman; some sixteen states allowed abortions under other circumstances, such as pregnancies resulting from rape and incest. Such decision was brought up by a woman named “Jane roe”, an anonymous woman living in Dallas, challenged the constitutionality of a Texas law prohibiting abortion except to save the life of a woman. The supreme court found that the Texas statue unconstitutional, implementing that a woman right to her privacy under the U.S. constitution included her decision to terminate a pregnancy within six months of
There were many controversies before this court decision, the supreme court had gradually accepted the theory of a constitutionally protected right to generic privacy, emphasizing personal choice in marriage, child rearing, and