Roe+v.+Wade

Jennifer Carmona & Sydney Robertson

Roe vs. Wade happened in 1973 a woman in Dallas, Texas was unmarried and pregnant. She wanted to have an abortion but the Texas laws wouldn't let her unless "on medical advice for the purpose of saving a life of the mother." She filed a suit against Wade who was the district attorney, stated that the statue on the grounds violated the guarantee of personal liberty and the right to privacy with included the first, fourth, fifth, ninth and fourteenth Amendments. The Supreme Court invalidated any state laws that prohibited first trimester abortions. Texas and 11 other states laws say that after 20 weeks of pregnancy you can not have an abortion.

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