Jane Roe, a single woman who was living in Dallas County, Texas, sued the District Attorney of the county. She believed that the Texas criminal abortion laws were unconstitutional. Roe alleged that she was unmarried and pregnant; that she wished to terminate her pregnancy by an abortion performed by a competent, licensed physician, under safe clinical conditions. The problem was that she was unable to get a "legal" abortion in Texas because her life did not appear to be threatened by her pregnancy; and that she could not afford to travel to another area in order to secure a legal abortion under safe conditions. She claimed that the Texas laws were unconstitutional and that they terminated her right of personal privacy protected by the First, Fourth, Fifth, Ninth, and Fourteenth Amendments. Roe decided to sue on behalf of her self and all other women in the same situation as hers.

Abortion laws have changed throughout the years. As shown in the appendix, many Americans have missed feelings on abortion and its laws. The Roe vs. Wade case was just one of the many cases which involved a women's right to privacy. As more technological advances break through, women will have many more options.

he two states' decisions on legalization, on Jan. 22, 1973 the U.S. Supreme Court recognizes abortion as a "fundamental right" for women in its ruling on Roe vs. Wade, repealing all state laws banning abortion. Three years later, in 1976, another Supreme Court rules in the Planned Parenthood vs. Danforth case, declaring that a Missouri law that wanted the consent of the father or a parent, unconstitutional. One year later in the Maher vs. Roe case, the Supreme Court upholds the Connecticut law limiting Medicaid funding for abortions to only medically necessary abortions. In the 1980's President Reagan's Supreme Court appointees, favor new state restrictions on abortion. In 1983 in the Akron vs. Akron Center for Reproductive Health case, the Supreme Court makes an Ohio law requiring a woman wanting an abortion to be informed that the fetus is a human life from the moment of conception, invalid. Six years later the Supreme Court empowers states to impose abortion restric!

tions in Webster vs. Reproductive Health Services case, which upheld a Missouri ban on the use of public facilities, money or employees, who are involved in performing abortions. In 1992, a mostly conservative Supreme Court states that abortions can be restricted by states in the Planned Parenthood vs. Casey case. Two years later, the Madsen vs. Women's Center Inc., the Supreme Court allows judges to create abortion clinic safety zones to protect against anti-abortion protesters. On December 7, 1995 the Senate passes its first ban on partial birth abortions. One year later, on September 26, 1996, the Senate falls short votes to override President Clinton's veto on the parti

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