a landmark United States Supreme Court decision establishing that most laws against abortion violate a constitutional right to privacy, thus overturning all state laws outlawing or restricting abortion that were inconsistent with the decision. It is one of the most controversial cases in U.S. Supreme Court history.
The decision in Roe v. Wade prompted a still-continuing national debate over whether terminating pregnancies should be legal (or more precisely, whether a state can choose to deem the act illegal), the role of the Supreme Court in constitutional adjudication, and the role of religious views in the political sphere. Roe v. Wade became one of the most politically significant Supreme Court decisions in history, reshaping national politics, dividing the nation into "pro-choice" and "pro-life" camps, and inspiring grassroots activism.
Opposition to Roe comes primarily from those who viewed the Court's decision as illegitimate for straying too far from the text and history of the Constitution, and those possessing beliefs about the personhood of fetal human life.
Support for Roe comes from those who view the decision as necessary to preserve women's equality and personal freedom, and those who believe in the primacy of individual over collective rights, although the opposition to Roe often reference the primacy of the individual when referring to the fetus.
It made abortion legal thus starting the MURDER of innocents in our modern society!
2006-09-18 06:56:32
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answered by debra_har 4
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Significance Of Roe V Wade
2016-12-24 14:30:09
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answered by peirson 4
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Roe V Wade Significance
2016-10-07 05:37:34
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What is the significance of the Roe v. Wade trial?
2015-08-19 05:34:07
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answered by Lucienne 1
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The trial itself was a challenge to laws forbidding abortion. The significance of the trial itself was that set the stage for the appeal, which led ultimately to the holding by the Supreme Court.
That decision held that laws denying women the right to choose were a violation of constitutionally-protected liberties. Basically, that the choice of what happened inside a women's body was her choice, and not one that the government could force.
The Court in Roe also set up a trimester-scheme for determining what laws could be passed. That model was overturned in the 1992 case, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which set the current standard of "no undue burden".
2006-09-18 06:52:12
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answered by coragryph 7
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I think this was in 1973, but not sure.
Roe vs. Wade legalized abortion.
I think you could get an abortion if the mother's life was in danger, if she had be raped or the mother or child's life was at high risk.
The strange thing about Roe vs. Wade
is that the woman who went to court
eventually had an spiritual awakening
(like born anew experience)
and now is PRo life.
That's what I heard.
Abortion was illegal. Roe vs. Wade opened the way for woman
to end their pregnancies in the 1st trimester, I believe.
Later on, they also allowed abortion in later trimester.
Many woman felt that it was better than sticking a hanger
into the uterus and bleeding to death.
Under doctor's care, abortion became safe.
However, many woman had to march thru Pro Life Protest Lines
and you know that people were hurt in that situation.
Personally, I believe that instead of demonstrating and saying the rosary, the Catholic Pro Life Movement should have provided
shelters for pregnant woman and helped those unwanted children get adopted.
Words and protest are not as effective as taking action to save peoples live by literally taking them under you wing and helping them. Its easy to protest. Not easy to raise children.
2006-09-18 07:15:04
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answered by ? 2
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It is an extremely important Supreme Court decision.
It says the government must respect a woman's constitutional right to privacy - the government does not have the right to interfere with personal health decisions that a woman makes about her body during the first trimester of a pregnancy she is carrying.
During the second trimester, a state can regulate abortions, but only in 'ways that are reasonably related to maternal health'. And the state can write laws to restrict abortion during the 3rd trimester.
The uproar against Roe v Wade is the way that conservatives want to impose their own interpretation of when life begins onto a person's right to privacy and ability to make their own decisions.
(It represents an amazing contradiction in values - conservatives always argue for less government involvement in people's lives, except for this case.)
Determining when life begins is an enormously philosophical decision that has been debated for centuries.
2006-09-18 07:06:35
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answered by Tom-SJ 6
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There's absolutely nothing great about Roe V Wade.
2016-09-16 04:44:26
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answered by ? 1
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Roe v. Wade was an example of liberal judicial legislation. They squint their eyes and see things in the Constitution that no one else can see. Roe v. Wade was wholly unsubstantiated by the text and history of the Constitution.
2016-04-10 22:28:09
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answered by Anonymous
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It said that the government had no right to say what women should do with thier bodies concerning abortions. And that it violates constitutional rights to privacy. This decision is still being questioned today. I do not agree or accept abortion at all as a way for birth control. Give the baby 2 someone.
2006-09-18 06:56:17
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answered by ~*MissCrystal*~ 2
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