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.

The abortion issue doesn’t stop there. There have been disputed ever since this court case regarding abortion. The two main groups that are related to abortion are the Pro Choice group, and the Pro Life group. Two examples of these groups are in appendix 2. People who are Pro Choice believe that it is the women’s right to choose whether or not to abort the growing fetus. The Pro Life supporters believe that abortion should be illegal because, to them, the fetus is still a person and to kill it would be illegal. In many cases this is where a woman looses her rights as a person. If abortion is not remained legal there is a chance woman will start performing them illegally. One third to one half of all pregnancies in the United States end in abortion, 2,500 of these abortions will be performed illegally.

Woman accepted the definition that an important role that they play is mother and it is important to be in control of ones own body. Once they had choices about life roles, they came to feel they had the right to choose abortion to run their own lives.

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.

Abortions route throughout history are as follows. In the late 1700’s and early 1800’s abortion was legal before the time when the fetus is first felt moving. This was usually about the fourth month of pregnancy. At this time medical experts fought to criminalize abortion. In 1821 the first U.S. abortion bill, passed in Connecticut, banned the use of poisons to induce abortion. Following the bill, in 1859 a campaign by the American Medical Association lead more than forty states to outlaw abortion. In the 1960’s support for more lenient abortion laws in the U.S. a

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