Abortion was dealt with in different ways. Despite all the laws, the charge of abortion was hard to charge someone with. Because back then there were no scientific ways to determine whether or not someone was pregnant. The only definite diagnosis of pregnancy both medically and legally binding, was for the doctor to hear the fetal heart, the heart could only be heard after four to five months. Before that, all the abortionist had to say was that her menstraul period was l

Roe vs. Wade was the U.S. Supreme Court case that made on demand abortions legal. It ruled that the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution provided the right to women to have abortions. Under the name "Jane Roe", a single 25 yr. old woman named Norma McCorvey challenged the abortion laws in Texas. The law at that time forbade abortion except for when the mother's life is in danger. She stated that the law was unconstitutional. She was up against Texas Attorney General Henry Wade who defended the anti-abortion law. "Roe" filed an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court in 1969. She was pregnant with her 3rd child and claimed she was raped. The case was rejected and she gave birth to the child. But when she filed again in 1973, she was represented by a prominant Dallas Attorney, Sarah Weddington. She stated that the law was unconstitutional because it infringed the momen's right to privacy.

In 1987 Norma McCorvey admitted that her rape testimony in 69' was false. She is now a born again Christian and has converted to the pro-life lobby.

ate, and all he did was bring on her period. It was impossible to convict someone of murder unless the body can produce the corpus delicti. They were almost never able to examine tissue removed from the woman in a court of law, it was

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