“Right to Life” Cause Alive and Well
On January 22, 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a decision that would irreparably alter our nation. The ruling of Roe v. Wade, by a 7-2 vote, struck down all prior state abortion laws that had made abortion illegal. The reshaping of beliefs regarding the value of human life, paving the way for generations of future narcissists, had begun.
The general understanding of the Roe v. Wade case was that of a young, unmarried woman in Dallas seeking an abortion and being denied, owing to the state laws of Texas. We are also to understand that in response to her being denied (as the laws of Texas would only allow abortion if the life of the mother was at stake), she filed a suit against the district attorney of Dallas County, Henry Wade, challenging the constitutionality of Texas’ abortion laws. According to Planned Parenthood, “The case had been filed by ‘Jane Roe,’ an unmarried woman who wanted to safely and legally end her pregnancy.”
Being represented by Linda Coffee and Sarah Weddington, both recent graduates of the University of Texas Law School, “Roe contested the statute on the grounds that it violated the Fourteenth Amendment mandating equal protection of the laws and the guarantee of personal liberty, and a mother’s right to privacy implicitly guaranteed in the First, Fourth, Ninth, and Fourteenth Amendments,” according to landmarkcases.org.
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