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The Supreme Court Case That Changed My Life

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Before the Supreme Court case that changed lives forever, there were many women that went back behind their husbands or their parents to have an abortion on the account of rape or incest. They gave abortions in an interesting way long with the risk of being disowned forever and tried for a cause of illegal abortions. In the 1960’s women were not allowed to walk into an abortion clinic or doctor’s office and get an abortion. “There was no federal law regulating abortions, and many states had banned the practice entirely, except when the life of the mother was endangered.” (Roe v. Wade). When the women wanted to have abortions they would either do it themselves and risk getting an infection or have a doctor preform it in secret. For example they would get a metal coat hanger, twist it, and then stick it up there killing the child. There was an organization that dealt with abortions …show more content…

If you were caught having one done you were that outcast of the town for the rest of your life. People looked down and you and you were normally widowed soon after. The husbands and or the fathers of the women denied that they did anything if they were accused of rape and or incest to every …show more content…

When writing to her state government didn’t work out, she then wrote of her problems to the Supreme Court saying that she feared that her rights to her own body were being controlled by someone that was not her. The Supreme Court looked over her case multiple time deciding if it was worth it and if they should look further it. After they decided to do it they ruled that abortions should be legal and that women should have a say because it is their own body not their husband or a case of

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