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1 U.S. Supreme Court Case: Roe v. Wade Name Institution Instructor Course Date 2 Introduction One of the interesting landmark rulings in the history of SCOTUS is Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973).1 The case was first argued on December 13, 1971, and later reargued on October 11, 1972, before SCOTUS. On January 22, 1973, the Supreme Court issued its legal decision on the case. The parties involved in this case were Norma McCorvey, referred to in court documents as Jane Roe, and Henry Wade.2 Jane Roe was a 21-year-old Texas resident who sought an abortion. However, under Texas law, abortions were prohibited except where it was necessary to save the mother’s life. Roe was the chief plaintiff in the case. Roe sued the defendant, Henry Wade, the District Attorney of Dallas Country since he enforced a law that banned abortion with the exception of saving the mother’s life. Wade represented the State of Texas in the case.3 The focus of Roe v. Wade was whether the Constitution embraced the right of a woman to obtain an abortion, thus invalidating the Texas law that prohibited abortion except where the mother’s life was in danger.4 The case and controversy The plaintiff in the case, Jane Roe, found that she was expecting a third child. Roe went back to Dallas, Texas, where her loved ones counseled her to deceptively claim that she had been raped so as to get access to legal abortion, but with the wrong supposition that Texas law permitted abortion under incest and rape cases. ...
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