Norma McCorvey was "Jane Roe" and Dallas County District Attorney Henry Wade was "Wade" prosecuting for the State of Texas.

It was ostensibly against Henry Wade, District Attorney of Rockwell County, Texas, who was legally obliged to support the local laws that prohibited abortion. Jane Doe was found by supporters of abortion. She (real name Norma McCorvey, who is now pro-life) got pregnant in 1969 and was given some bad advice - she told people she was raped, hoping to obtain a legal abortion. Attorneys Linda Coffee and Sarah Weddington ended up taking her case and they brought it all the way to the Supreme Court where it was heard in October 1972. In January of 1973, abortion became legal in the United States.

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To fully understand what happened with Roe v Wade, you also need to look at Doe v Bolton (same year) and Giswold v Connecticut (1965). There are other important ones, but those are the big supporting pieces of law.

Doe v Bolton. It allowed abortion for the life or health of the mother. Health was defined so vaguely that abortion is legal up until birth in all 50 US states if a doctor approves it and claims the reason is health-related.

Roe v. Wade was not located in a specific physical location. It refers to a landmark Supreme Court case that was decided on January 22, 1973. The case took place at the United States Supreme Court in Washington, D.C.

Direct Answer: This controversial ruling struck down many of the legal restrictions that were (at that time) in place against abortion. It is hard to estimate the impact of the ruling itself, since it was tied in with a number of much broader movements: the sexual revolution, women's rights movement, feminism, and civil rights more generally. However, for a period of perhaps 100 years prior - beginning in the late 19th century and ending with RvW - abortion was a felony in most states in the US, punishable by fine or imprisonment. This meant that women who became pregnant were legally obligated to bring the child to term regardless of the conditions of their life or how they came to be pregnant. The only exceptions were for imminent risk to the woman's life. Abortions were still carried out despite the legal restrictions, but (because of the risks to those doing the abortions, who could also be jailed), abortions were often done secretively and without proper medical procedures. This carried an unfortunately high rate of medical problems, either from the treatment itself or from post-treatment infection, which could sometimes lead to permanent reproductive damage or even death. Some have connected abortion with increases in sexual promiscuity, sexually transmitted diseases, and other social ills, though this is probably a function of the sexual revolution more generally, which legitimized non-marital sexuality and created an open environment for discussions and depictions of sexuality in media (such as advertising and entertainment). Frankly, the risk of pregnancy (despite what people may say) has never been much of a deterrent to sexual activity in people of any age. The debate over abortion has become a significant cultural phenomenon in its own right, with an impact on election campaigns and public policy nationwide, though it has generally focused on the question of rights (the rights of the mother against the rights of an unborn child) rather than on questions of sexuality.

Moral considerations: The right to an abortion was seen as one of the lynch-pins of the women's rights movement not because abortion was needed as a form of contraception - there were many contraceptives available at the time, as there are today - but because abortion was seen as a necessary 'last-ditch' safeguard against a woman being forced to have a child against her will. Contraceptives might fail or be sabotaged, sexual intercourse might be forced, living conditions might make raising a child an untenable burden; all of these cases can result in a woman being reduced (to use the feminist's terminology) to a form of chattel slavery, in which she must dedicate her life to caring for a child she neither asked for nor wanted. The moral/ethical conflict, thus, lies between the inherent right any individual has to be free (which is well-established in moral and legal codes) and the right of an unborn individual to live (highly contentious uncharted territory, since the various religious and medical opinions can not agree at what point an unborn child becomes a living being). The most conservative opinions hold that a child becomes a living being at conception (which would make any abortion a form of murder); more common opinions believe fetuses become living beings when they begin to move (usually at the end of the first trimester, which is what current law and practice use); some religious beliefs go so far as to hold that a child is not a living being until it draws its first breath (which is the standard that most US courts use to distinguish between the crime of late-term abortion and the much more serious crime of infanticide, in cases where newborns are found dead).

Roe v. Wade was decided simultaneously with companion case Doe v. Boton, the Court ruled that a right to privacy under the due process clause in the 14th Amendment extends to a woman's decision to have an abortion, but that right must be balanced against the state's two legitimate interests for regulating abortions: protecting prenatal life and protecting the woman's health. Saying that these state interests become stronger over the course of a pregnancy, the Court resolved this balancing test by tying state regulation of abortion to the woman's current trimester of pregnancy.

Well, I am American and I had one abortion. It was in 2011. I deeply, deeply regret it.

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Roe vs Wade has meant that women don't have to die in illegal abortions or become sterile. They also don't get stuck in poverty or are being forced to give away their baby because they can not afford it or can't afford to give up an education or a job in order to keep the child. It has given abused women a chance to get out of the relationship. And it has given the chance for millions of teen girls and boys to finish school and not getting a low paid job because they have to support the child. The American government already pay 8 billions a year on teen parents and that would be more unless it was legal. Basically it has given American women the right to choose when to become parents and to decide over their own bodies.

The 14th Amendment

The majority of the US population is for the choice.

A Texas law the made abortion a crime

Roe did.

They decided that (1) the Constitution does not forbid abortion or define "person" to include a fetus; and (2) the sperm donor who got a woman pregnant does not have a right to override her decision about her own body.

• Norma McCorvey (Roe) became pregnant and wanted an abortion, prohibited by Texas law. Her attorneys alleged that the abortion law in Texas violated her Constitutional rights and the rights of other women. The defendant was the district attorney of Dallas County, Texas, Henry B. Wade.

  As it was a Constitutional case claiming state law violated the Constitution, the Supreme Court decided to hear it.

• Because Jane Roe felt that her rights as a woman were being restricted. She felt that a woman should have the right to the health and care of her own Reproductive System.

No, only the US Supreme Court can.

It means the government has no right to interfere with the personal health decisions a woman make about her body during the first trimester. It says the government must respect a woman's constitutional right to privacy.

The right for women to have access to legal abortions.