Abortion and the US: How it all started
Roe v. Wade: a federal law that supports the right of women abortion. Comfort Pelumi Ojo In the year 1973, the US Supreme Court declared that the right to abortion was constitutional and made abortion legal. This became federal protection for any woman who wished to have an abortion in any of the states under the jurisdiction of the USA. Before the legalization of abortion by the Supreme Court in 1973, the states in the United States of America were made to decide individually if abortion was to be legal in their state. This restricted many women, including Norma McCorvey, known as Jane Roe, who later was referred to the attorneys (Linda Coffee and Sarah Weddington) who were willing to take up a case against the illegalization of abortion in her state (Texas). After winning the case against her local district attorney, Henry Wade, as regards the abortion rule in Texas, they further appealed to the Supreme Court of the US and succeeded. In recent e...