In it, she stated that she wanted to remain anonymous since "the notoriety occasioned by the lawsuit would make it impossible for me to secure any employment in the near future and would severely limit my advancement in any employment which I might secure at some later date." She continued, "I consider the decision of whether to bear a child a highly personal one and feel that the notoriety occasioned by the lawsuit would result on a gross invasion of my personal privacy." She wrote that she "wanted to terminate my pregnancy because of the economic hardship which my pregnancy entailed and because of the social stigma attached to the bearing of illegitimate children on our society." (www.galegroup.com) .
On January 22, 1973, the Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that the Texas law stating that a woman could not have an abortion unless she was a victim of rape or incest and if her life was at stake was unconstitutional. For the first time the court recognized that the constitutional right to privacy "is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy." (Roe v. Wade, 1973) Roe has come to be known as the case that legalized abortion nationwide. Prior to this case abortion was illegal in the U.S. with the exception of New York, Colorado, California and North Carolina and only under very limited circumstances.
To reach its decision in Roe, the Supreme Court drew on decades of case law that established that the government cannot interfere with certain personal decisions about procreation, marriage, and other aspects of family life. In 1965, the trial of Griswold v. Connecticut, the executive director of the Planned Parenthood League tried to provide contraceptives to married couples. The Supreme Court ruled against this saying it was a crime to force a couple to use birth control and violated the couple's right to privacy.
Seven years later, a similar case came about between Eisenstadt and Baird when contraceptives tried to be forced upon single people.
Supreme Court Case: Roe v. Wade January 22, 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court announced its decision in Roe v. Wade. The case was a challenge to a Texas statute that made it a crime to perform an abortion unless a woman's life was at stake. The case was made by Jane Roe who wanted to end her pregn...
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