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Fast Roe v
Wade
Facts for kids
The Petitioner in the
case was 'Jane Roe' who later identified herself as Norma
McCorvey. The defendant was Henry Wade, the Dallas, Texas district
attorney. The cased was first argued on Monday, December 13,
1971 by Texas attorney Sarah Weddington against defender, Jay Floyd.
Sarah Weddington reargued the case at the Supreme Court on
Wednesday, October 11, 1972 against defender Robert C. Flowers. The
Chief Justice was Warren E. Burger who announced the
Roe v Wade decision on Monday, January 22, 1973.
Roe v
Wade
Facts for kids: Roe v
Wade Summary
The summary of the Roe
v Wade summary of the decision is as follows:
Roe v
Wade Summary
Roe v Wade
Summary: The U.S. Supreme
Court declared all the individual state bans on abortion
during the first trimester to be unconstitutional.
Roe v Wade
Summary: The ruling allowed
states to regulate, but not to ban, abortion during the
second trimester (a trimester is a period of three
months during pregnancy
Roe v Wade
Summary: It allowed states
to ban abortion during the third trimester, unless
abortion is in the best interest of the woman's physical
or mental health.
Roe v Wade
Summary: The Supreme Court
legalized abortion in all trimesters when a woman's
doctor believes the abortion is necessary for her
physical or mental health
Roe v Wade
Summary: The court also
held that only a "compelling state interest" justified
regulations limiting the individual right to privacy.
Roe v
Wade Summary
Roe v
Wade
Facts for kids: Roe v
Wade Decision
The reasoning behind
the Roe v. Wade ruling was largely vested in the
Fourteenth Amendment, specifically the Due Process Clause, and
argued that a woman had a constitutional right to privacy.
Roe v
Wade
Facts for kids: Timeline and Events prior to Roe v
Wade
The following fact
sheet contains interesting facts and information on the events in US
law and history the led up to the Roe v Wade case with a timeline of
US Abortion Laws.
Roe v Wade
Facts for kids - Timeline of Abortion Laws
Roe v Wade
Facts - 1: During the 1800's
abortion was permitted in the early stages of pregnancy.
Abortions were unregulated and led to the deaths of many
women. The earliest anti-abortion laws were passed in
the early 1800s, when states adopted statutory
law.
Roe v Wade
Facts -
2: The early
anti-abortion laws were intended to protect women from
untrained abortionists. The first statutory abortion
regulation was passed in 1821 in Connecticut. The
purpose of the law was to protect women from the
inducement of abortion through the administration of
poison after the fourth month of pregnancy.
Roe v Wade
Facts - 3: The anti-abortion movement saw
a rise in 1856 when Dr. Horatio Storer, a leading pro-life advocate
established a national drive by the American Medical Association
(AMA) to end legal abortion.
Roe v Wade
Facts - 4: The 1873 Comstock Act was a
federal law passed by Congress that made the publication and
possession of information about or devices or medications used for
“unlawful” abortion or contraception. Individuals convicted of
violating the law were subject to up to five years of imprisonment
with hard labor and a heavy fine.
Roe v Wade
Facts - 5: By 1890 abortion was regulated
by statutes advocated by the American Medical Association (AMA), and
abortion was permitted on the word of one or more physicians who
believed that the procedure was necessary to preserve the life of
the mother. In any other cases, women who chose to have an abortion
faced criminal prosecution.
Roe v Wade
Facts - 6: In 1959 the American Law
Institute (ALI) drafted a model state abortion law to make legal
abortions accessible.
Roe v Wade
Facts - 7: The 1965 Griswold v
Connecticut was a landmark case in which the Supreme Court ruled
that it was a woman’s constitutional right to privacy and protected
by the 14th Amendment.
Roe v Wade
Facts - 8: By 1967 abortion
was classified as a felony in 49 states and Washington
D.C. and one of the major goals of women's rights
activists and
Feminists was
the repeal of laws against abortion.
Roe v Wade
Facts - 9: In 1967 President
John F. Kennedy created the Presidential Commission on
the Status of Women (PCSW) to advise on
issues concerning the status of women.
Roe v Wade
Facts - 10: In 1968 President
Lyndon B. Johnson’s Committee on The Status of Women (PCSW)
released a report calling for a repeal of all abortion
laws.
Roe v Wade
Facts - 11: Between 1967 and
1972 California, Colorado, North Carolina, Georgia ,
Maryland, Arkansas, Delaware, Kansas, New Mexico,
Oregon, Hawaii, New York, Alaska, Washington, Arkansas,
Delaware, Kansas, New Mexico, Oregon, South Carolina,
Virginia and Florida reformed their abortion laws that
banned abortion except to save a woman’s life, allowing
abortion on demand up to the 24th week of pregnancy. The
remaining states allow abortion only to save the
mother’s life.
Roe v Wade
Facts - 12: On April 21, 1971
the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on its first abortion
rights case in United States v. Vuitch. Dr. Milan Vuitch,
a qualified physician and an abortion provider in the
District of Columbia, was charged with violating a law
that only allowed abortions to preserve a woman's life
or health.
Roe v Wade
Facts -
13: The Supreme Court
ruling, in United States v. Vuitch, was that "health"
should include psychological as well as physical
well-being and that the burden of proof should be on the
prosecutor.
Roe v Wade
Facts - 14: The justices voted
to hear other abortion cases, such as Roe v. Wade and
Doe v. Bolton, the day after Dr. Vuitch's opinion was
heard.
Roe v Wade
Facts for kids - Timeline of Abortion Laws
Roe v
Wade
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The following
Roe v Wade fact sheet contains
interesting facts and information about the Roe v Wade case.
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about Roe v Wade for kids
The following
Roe v Wade fact
sheet contains information about the 1973 Roe v Wade legal case.
Roe v Wade
Facts for kids
Roe v Wade
Facts - 1:
The Roe v Wade legal case was based around an
unmarried, pregnant woman named Roe, a resident of Texas
who brought a class action suit challenging the
constitutionality of the Texas abortion laws.
Roe v Wade
Facts -
2: The unmarried
pregnant woman of the Roe v Wade case was identified
only as 'Jane Roe' in order to maintain her anonymity.
The woman concerned has since publicly identified
herself as Norma McCorvey.
Roe v Wade
Facts - 3: In late 1969, at the age of 21
years old , Norma McCorvey became pregnant for a third time. She was
working in low-paying jobs, depressed and living with her father.
She failed to obtain an abortion, and was referred to the attorneys
Linda Coffey and Sarah Weddington.
Roe v Wade
Facts - 4: The Roe v Wade began in March
1970 when Sarah Weddington, and her co-counsel Linda Coffey, filed
suit against Henry Wade, the Dallas, Texas district attorney and the
person responsible for enforcing the anti-abortion statute.
Roe v Wade
Facts - 5: Sarah Weddington and Linda
Coffee mounted a 1970 constitutional challenge to the Texas criminal
abortion statutes that prohibited doctors from performing abortions.
Roe v Wade
Facts - 6: The Roe v Wade law suit sought
to have the Texas abortion law declared unconstitutional as an
invasion of her right to privacy as guaranteed by the 1st, 4th, 5th,
9th Amendments and in the 14th Amendments, as recognized in 1965
Griswold v. Connecticut
Roe v Wade
Facts - 7: Sarah Weddington also sought
to have an Injunction, or court order, restraining the defendant
(Wade) from enforcing the statutes.
Roe v Wade
Facts - 8:
The case of Roe v Wade was first argued on December 13,
1971 and the district court agreed that the Texas
abortion laws were unconstitutional. However the state
appealed against the decision, and the case was
eventually reargued in the Supreme Court.
Roe v Wade
Facts - 9: A physician, James
Hubert Hallford, who was being prosecuted under the
statute for two abortions he had performed, also filed
suit against the law.
Roe v Wade
Facts - 10: The three-judge
district court combined the cases of Roe (McCorvey) and
Hallford and the case was reargued in the Supreme Court
on January 22, 1973.
Roe v Wade
Facts - 11: Roe v Wade case
took three years of trials to reach the Supreme Court,
during which time, Norma McCorvey gave birth to the baby
in question, who was eventually adopted.
Roe v Wade
Facts - 12: In Roe v Wade the
Supreme Court declared individual state bans on abortion
during the first trimester as unconstitutional. It
allowed states to regulate, but not to ban, abortion
during the second trimester. It allowed states to ban
abortion in all trimesters, unless abortion was in the
best interest of the woman's physical or mental health.
Roe v Wade
Facts -
13: Another Supreme Court's decision on
the case of Doe v. Bolton was released on January 22,
1973, the same day as the decision on Roe v Wade. The
case of Doe v. Bolton, was a decision of the US Supreme
Court overturning the more liberal abortion law of
Georgia.
Roe v Wade
Facts - 14: Together, the
decisions of Roe v Wade and Doe v. Bolton overturned
many of the states existing abortion laws. However, the
decision brought about a furor from anti-abortionist
campaigners and gave rise to the United States pro-life
movement (also known as the United States anti-abortion
movement or the United States right-to-life movement)
Roe v Wade
Facts -
15: The other side of
the abortion debate in the United States is the
pro-choice movement, which argues that pregnant women
retain the right to choose whether or not to have an
abortion.
Roe v Wade
Facts - 16: The two sides of the debate continue their
arguments to the present day.
Roe v Wade
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Roe v Wade - President Richard Nixon Video
The article on Roe
v Wade provides detailed facts and a summary of one of the important events during his presidential term in office. The following
Richard Nixon video will
give you additional important facts from
January 20, 1969 to August 9, 1974.
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