Roe V. Wade Significance

Significance of Roe v. Wade In the 1960’s, there was no law that regulated abortions. Coherently, numerous states banned abortions unless the doctor stated the baby put the mother’s life at stake. States like California and New York did begin to legalized abortion due to feminist groups arguing the banning abortions forced women to get black market abortions and even perform the procedure on themselves. Eventually, these feminist groups would want to legalize it nationwide. Their opportunity was given to them in Roe v. Wade. This case challenged the banning of abortions in Texas’s court. The case would eventually make it to the Supreme Court. Roe argued that the law violated the 9th and 14th Amendment which broadly included that women are constituted to the right of privacy; that included pregnancies. After two years of listening to all the evidence that was brought to the panel, on January 22, 1963, Roe won the case in 7 to 2 decision in the Supreme Court. This court decision forced over

Wade court case, a book called Our Bodies, Ourselves by the Boston Women’s Health Collective was published; “It offered a women a new understanding of their own sexual and reproductive health.” (pg.812) Essentially, the won over Roe v. Wade was a big win for the feminist movement. Not only was the goal accomplish, it also open a new road of possibilities for the Women’s Movement. In Griswold v. Connecticut, two men were being put in jail for supplying birth control to married couples. In 1965, the Supreme Court ruled in Griswold favor due to banning birth control to married people was interfering in their personal life, and consequentially violated the constitution. The ripple effect of Roe v. Wade and Griswold v. Connecticut was that it open an easier way for women to fight to have control of their own bodies. As a result, it also made the Supreme Court realize that it was unconstitutional to interfere in not just women, but all people’s private