Significance of this Court Case: This is significant to me because it made abortion legal. This is bad because some people will now use abortion as a form of birth control, and get abortions whenever they please. Others should feel this way because family members and friends could being doing this around them.
Rights and Responsibilities
Around the 1970’s women were still fighting for their complete freedom. As 1971 rolled around, women were celebrating the 19th anniversary of their right to vote. In some states women still weren’t as equal as men. Women still weren’t able to get as high paying of jobs as men. For every dollar a man made a women would make 39 cents. No matter how high a woman’s college degree is she will not make nearly as much as that of a guy of an 8th grade education. In the 1970’s a case was brought to the supreme court (Roe V. Wade) fighting a woman’s right to an abortion for whatever reason she pleases. The court case argued whether or not women should be able to abort their child at whatever reason they choose. After a long battle in court, the court decided in favor of Jane Roe (to get an abortion whenever they seem fit). They felt it necessary because it was affecting the constitutional rights of America. The opponents of this case which was Henry Wade (the district attorney of Dallas) was beaten, and abortion was made legal. This is was only the second time Wade had been beaten in a case. This made the losing side feel very defeated. Years later after this case (to this day) people are still going back and forth between making abortion legal and making it illegal. It’s still a battle people are willing to fight for.
Significant Events
1821 -- America's first statutory abortion regulation is enacted in Connecticut in order to protect women from abortion inducement through poison administered after the fourth month of pregnancy.
1967 -- Abortion is classified a felony in 49 states and Washington D.C. Dr. Leon Belouis convicted for referring a woman to an illegal abortionist -- a case leading to a 1969 California Supreme Court decision in favor of the right to choose abortion.
1996 -- The abortion debate shifts to state bans on "partial-birth abortions" which generally include late-term abortions performed with the "dilation and evacuation" method. 104th Congress passes HR 1833, a bill to outlaw such procedures; President Clinton vetoed the bill.
“Abortion should not only be safe and legal, it should be rare.”
BILL CLINTON, speech at DNC, Aug. 29, 1996
Rights and Responsibilities
Around the 1970’s women were still fighting for their complete freedom. As 1971 rolled around, women were celebrating the 19th anniversary of their right to vote. In some states women still weren’t as equal as men. Women still weren’t able to get as high paying of jobs as men. For every dollar a man made a women would make 39 cents. No matter how high a woman’s college degree is she will not make nearly as much as that of a guy of an 8th grade education. In the 1970’s a case was brought to the supreme court (Roe V. Wade) fighting a woman’s right to an abortion for whatever reason she pleases. The court case argued whether or not women should be able to abort their child at whatever reason they choose. After a long battle in court, the court decided in favor of Jane Roe (to get an abortion whenever they seem fit). They felt it necessary because it was affecting the constitutional rights of America. The opponents of this case which was Henry Wade (the district attorney of Dallas) was beaten, and abortion was made legal. This is was only the second time Wade had been beaten in a case. This made the losing side feel very defeated. Years later after this case (to this day) people are still going back and forth between making abortion legal and making it illegal. It’s still a battle people are willing to fight for.
Significant Events
1821 -- America's first statutory abortion regulation is enacted in Connecticut in order to protect women from abortion inducement through poison administered after the fourth month of pregnancy.
1967 -- Abortion is classified a felony in 49 states and Washington D.C. Dr. Leon Belouis convicted for referring a woman to an illegal abortionist -- a case leading to a 1969 California Supreme Court decision in favor of the right to choose abortion.
1996 -- The abortion debate shifts to state bans on "partial-birth abortions" which generally include late-term abortions performed with the "dilation and evacuation" method. 104th Congress passes HR 1833, a bill to outlaw such procedures; President Clinton vetoed the bill.
“Abortion should not only be safe and legal, it should be rare.”
BILL CLINTON, speech at DNC, Aug. 29, 1996