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Roe v. Wade: The Battle Over Abortion
Presented by Stephanie Barclay

Perhaps no modern U.S. Supreme Court decision has aroused more passion than Roe v. Wade, the 1973 case that announced the constitutional right to abortion.

A judicial earthquake, it shook the country to its social, political and constitutional core.

The aftershocks continue to this day.

Socially, it revolutionized how people thought about, talked about, and experienced abortion. In the words of UC Berkeley Professor Kristin Luker, “it changed everything.”

Politically, it gave rise to two opposing movements: pro-life and pro-choice.

Constitutionally, it suggested that the Court had the power to create rights that lacked any meaningful support in the text of the Constitution.

Roe concerned a Texas woman named Norma McCorvey—then kept anonymous under the pseudonym “Jane Roe.” McCorvey wanted to have an abortion but was prevented from doing so because of Texas’ abortion law.

In 1970, “Jane Roe” sued Dallas County District Attorney Henry Wade to overturn the Texas law. Her case, Roe v. Wade, reached the Supreme Court, and in January 1973, the Court ruled 7-to-2 in favor of Roe, declaring that Texas had violated Roe’s constitutional right to privacy.

That right had been loosely established in previous court cases, most notably Griswold v. Connecticut (1965). What