Answer to Question #289289 in History for yoo

Question

Research the Roe vs Wade Supreme court case and describe what it says and how it has impacted American society since 1973.

Answer 1

Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States protects a pregnant woman's liberty to choose to have an abortion without excessive government restriction. The case involved a Texas statute that prohibited abortion except when necessary to save the life of the pregnant woman. The Supreme Court, in a decision written by Justice Blackmun, recognized a privacy interest in abortions. The decision struck down many U.S. federal and state abortion laws.

The decision gave a woman total sovereignty over the pregnancy during the first trimester and defined different levels of state interest for the second and third trimesters. The decision hit down many U.S. federal and state abortion laws. Roe powered an ongoing abortion debate in the United States about whether or to what extent abortion should be legal, who should decide the legality of abortion, and what the role of moral and religious views in the political sphere should be.