Roe v. Wade

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Roe v. Wade THE SUPREME COURT CASE THAT CHANGED THE COUNTRY ETHAN F.

The Life, The Right, The Fight Every time you turn on the television at home, what do you see?

“Equal justice under law is not merely a caption on the facade of the Supreme Court building, it is perhaps the most inspiring ideal of our society. It is one of the ends for which our entire legal system exists...it is fundamental that justice should be the same, in substance and availability, without regard to economic status.”

- Justice Lewis F. Powell

Most likely, you have heard through news stories, television, or radio broadcasts that a new president is inches away from being in the Oval Office. With weekday debates in town halls, these candidates are being asked questions spanning from foreign issues to economic growth and support. These hopeful candidates will discuss the most important topics of our country including terrorism, the economy, healthcare, gay rights, and one of the “hottest” topics, abortion. Abortion is a procedure where a woman’s pregnancy is aborted, or ended by operation. Since the 1970’s, millions of abortions have been carried out in the lives of women throughout the United States, and companies have risen from the dust to support abortion. Pro-life and Pro-choice are two opinions that have been argued since the very essence of the idea of it. However, who, really, gets to make the decision on whether the constitution gives women the right to abort their unborn baby? The answer is, the Supreme Court, and since the 1970’s, people have been trying to tear down the world-changing abortion case of Roe v. Wade.

Portrait of Associate justice Powell


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