Abortion

Abortion Since 1973 abortion has been an important controversial issue to the United States. The problem begins with should it be a women’s choice whether or not to terminate her pregnancy or should it be the Governments choice. The Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court Case of 1973 ruled that state laws that criminalize abortion are unconstitutional. Jane Roe, a single woman who was living in Dallas County, Texas, sued the District Attorney of the county. She believed that the Texas criminal abortion laws were unconstitutional. Roe alleged that she was unmarried and pregnant; that she wished to terminate her pregnancy by an abortion performed by a competent, licensed physician, under safe clinical conditions. The problem was that she was unable to get a "legal" abortion in Texas because her life did not appear to be threatened by her pregnancy; and that she could not afford to travel to another area in order to secure a legal abortion under safe conditions. She claimed that the Texas laws were unconstitutional and that they terminated her right of personal privacy protected by the First, Fourth, Fifth, Ninth, and Fourteenth Amendments. Roe abortion, court, abortions, vs, supreme, right, legal, case, woman, states, women, should, roe, life, laws, later, privacy, pregnancy, choice, birth, ban, years, unconstitutional, one, first, choose, women’s, two, texas, state, pro, partial, law, important, fetus, control, connecticut, 1973, year, whether, wade, time, terminate, senate, president, performing, issue, illegally, illegal, form