The decision in Roe V Wade was very wrong. Norma McCorvey is now a pro-life activist after being the plaintiff in Roe V Wade, which was a lawsuit stating that individual state laws banning abortion are unconstitutional. In June 1969, Norma L. McCorvey discovered she was pregnant with her third child. She returned to Dallas, Texas, where friends advised her to falsely state that she had been raped in order to obtain a legal abortion (with the understanding that Texas law allowed abortion in cases of rape and incest). …show more content…
The defendant in the case was Dallas County District Attorney Henry Wade, who represented the State of Texas. McCorvey was no longer claiming her pregnancy was a result of rape, and later acknowledged that she had lied about having been raped. Rape is not mentioned in the judicial opinions in the case. On June 17, 1970, a three-judge panel of the District Court, consisting of Northern District of Texas Judges Sarah T. Hughes, William McLaughlin Taylor, Jr. and Judge Irving Loeb Goldberg, unanimously declared the Texas law unconstitutional, finding that it violated the right to privacy found in the Ninth Amendment.
Life begins at birth. At the moment when the sperm hits the egg, a new entity comes into existence. Zygote is the name of the first cell formed at conception, the earliest developmental stage of the human embryo, followed by the Morula and Blastocyst stages. Is it human? Is it alive? Is it just a cell or is it an actual organism, a being? These are logical questions. The zygote is composed of human DNA and other human molecules, so its nature is undeniably human and not