Roe v. Wade is the historic Supreme Court decision overturning a Texas abortion law & making it legal here in the the great United States. The Roe v. Wade decision held that a woman, with her doctor, could choose in earlier months of her pregnancy without a legal restriction. In 1970, Norma McCorvey was a young, pregnant woman in Texas without the money to have an abortion.She became the plaintiff, under a pseudonym “ Jane Roe” in Roe v. Wade case. Decided in 1973, one of the most famous Supreme Court decisions of the 20th century.Norma McCorvey’s identity was hidden for another 10 years but, during the 1980’s the public learned about the plaintiff & her actions to overturn a Texas law restricting abortion. The court's decision in this …show more content…
In the second trimester (before viability), the state's interest was seen as legitimate when it was protecting the health of the mother. After viability of the fetus (the likely ability of the fetus to be able to survive outside and separated from the uterus), the potential of the state could choose to "regulate, or even proscribe abortion" as long as the life and health of the mother was protected. Human life could be considered as a legitimate state. All state laws limiting women's access to abortions during the first trimester of pregnancy were invalidated by Roe v. Wade. State laws limiting such access during the second trimester were upheld only when the restrictions were for the purpose of protecting the health of the pregnant woman. Roe v. Wade legalized abortion in the United States, which was not legal at all in many states and was limited by law in others. So after all Norma went through she had her child & put it up for adoption. Even though she fought for all this & went through the long process & still had the child. This was a big moment for women, because it was hard for women to have any rights and to get a law passed not only in Texas but, in the United