In the year 1969, a woman named Norma McCorvy became pregnant after allegedly being raped. Norma, who would later adopt the pseudonym, "Jane Row" , wished to end her pregnancy by abortion; however, the Texas law outlawed abortions except for the instance when it would save the mother's life. In 1970, McCorvy filed a class action suit in the Federal District Court in Dallas. The district court ruled that the Texas law was unconstitutionally vague . The law infringed the woman's right to choose whether or not to have a child. Justice Blackmun drafted a new set of guidelines which clearly detailed when an abortion would be legal. 1) For the first

With the new enactment of the Hyde Amendment, the number of federally funded abortions dropped from 300,000 to under 2,500 per year . Since this case, there have been relatively few challenges to reverse the Medicaid policy. In fact, to this day, the Hyde Amendment remains virtually the same .

In the judge's decisions, the law was found to be unconstitutional. All minors must be given permission to have an abortion, regardless of anyone's view if it's in her best interest . Like the case of Panned Parenthood v. Danforth, the law stood firmly on the ground that no third party could veto a minor's right to end her pregnancy.

There have been many Supreme Court cases that challenge the legality of the protesting, one being Schenck v. Pro-Choice Network of Western New York.

In 1976, two lawyers and two members of Planned Parenthood of central Missouri filed a suit against a Missouri law that placed certain restrictions on abortions. The laws challenged were as follows: 1) Parental consent on a minors abortion. 2) Husband's consent on a married woman's abortion. 3) The woman's written informed consent. 4) No second trimester abortions be done by saline amniocentesis. 5) The abortion providers must do certain record keeping and reporting . This case, Planned Parenthood v. Danforth, occurred because many people thought that these laws denied the woman's absolute right to have an abortion. Having third party consent should not be required for a woman to have an abortion.

The rulings in the case Roe v. Wade immediately affected abortion laws in all fifty states . The case had a huge impact on the abortion controversy in the United States. Aside from giving women new rights, it opened the doors for more change in legislation. Roe v. Wade was not the end of the abortion law battle.

In the case of Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health (1983), three abortion clinics challenged the city of Akron's new abortion code. This code required that: 1) A woman wait 24 hours between consenting to, and receiving an abortion. 2) All abortions after the first trimester must be performed in a full service hospital. 3) Minors under fifteen must have parental or judicial consent to have an abortion. 4) The attending physician must give the woman information relevant to informed consent . On June 15, 1983, the Supreme Court decided that all of the restrictions listed above were unconstitutional .

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