Roe V. Wade?

Question

What are the reasons for it becoming a landmark case?
and how has it affected the law of the land?

Oh and what were the subsequent cases?

Answer 1

Teh Supreme Court basically created the "right of privacy" which isn't in the constitution. The decision has been controversial because a lot of people feel that it takes away from the rights of states and legislatures to create laws. Pro-lifers would argue that 500,000 fetuses are murdered evey year under this law, but they're not taking care of the 100,000 children who need to be adopted. The book "Freakonomics" argues that legal abortion reduces the crime rate, so it's a benefit to society that women who can't raise children adequately abort them, which is legal under Roe v. Wade.

Answer 2

Blathering aside - - - Roe Versus Wade made it legal for women to ontain abortions in America. Up to the time of Roe V Wade women and their physcians risked being prosecuted and jailed for having an abortion/ committing abortion. Overnight women were no longer forced to seek abortions from extortionist & criminals and could go to a clean sanitary clinic and have an abortion.

Here is Wikipedia's More eloquent verbage...

Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), was a U.S. Supreme Court case that resulted in a landmark judicial opinion about privacy and abortion in the United States.[1] According to the Roe decision, most laws against abortion violated a constitutional right to privacy under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The decision overturned all state and federal laws outlawing or restricting abortion that were inconsistent with its holdings. Roe is one of the most controversial and politically significant cases in U.S. Supreme Court history. Its lesser-known companion case, Doe v. Bolton, was decided at the same time.[2]

The central holding of Roe v. Wade was that abortions are permissible for any reason a woman chooses, up until the "point at which the fetus becomes ‘viable,’ that is, potentially able to live outside the mother's womb, albeit with artificial aid. Viability is usually placed at about seven months (28 weeks) but may occur earlier, even at 24 weeks."[1] The Court also held that abortion after viability must be available when needed to protect a woman's health, which the Court defined broadly.

The Roe v. Wade decision prompted national debate that continues to this day about whether and to what extent abortion should be illegal, about who should decide whether or not it is illegal, about the methods used by the Supreme Court in constitutional adjudication, and about the role of religious and moral views in the political sphere. Roe v. Wade reshaped national politics, dividing much of the nation into "pro-choice" and "pro-life" camps, and inspiring grassroots activism on both sides.

Critics describe Roe as illegitimate for straying from the text and history of the Constitution, and imposing abortion policy on the states and Congress contrary to American principles of federalism and democracy. Another criticism of Roe (though not one made by the dissenters) is that the majority opinion failed to recognize the personhood of fetal human life, either beginning at conception or later. Supporters describe Roe as vital to preservation of women's equality, personal freedom, and privacy."

Peace...

Answer 3

Because it debates two sides to the case (abortion) one of the biggest issues. You can tell alot about a political person by which way the lean on this issue. It was even more taboo back in the 70's when this case went to court.

Answer 4

It is landmark because it limited the degree to which religious perverts could control the private lives of others.

Answer 5

It was a landmark abortion case in the US.

Answer 6

it was landmark because it was controversial (considering it's abortion.)
well, it's legal now.

Answer 7

Legal murder is still murder.