McCorvey died at an assisted living home in Texas in February 2017, aged 69. district court in Dallas. The motion moved through the courts until it was ultimately denied by the Supreme Court in 2005. In 2003, a she filed a motion to overturn her original 1973 ruling with the U.S. However, she performed an unlikely U-turn in 1995, becoming a born again Christian and began traveling the country speaking out against the procedure. McCorvey became a leading, outspoken pro-abortion voice in American discourse, even working at a women’s clinic where abortions were performed. McCorvey lived a quiet life until the 1980s when she revealed herself to be Jane Roeįollowing the ruling, McCorvey lived a quiet life until the 1980s when she revealed herself to be Jane Roe. Bush in 2003, which banned a procedure used to perform second-trimester abortions. One such was the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act signed by President George W.
Though the decision has never been overturned, anti-abortionists have prompted hundreds of states laws since then narrowing the scope of the ruling. However, pro-lifers contended it was tantamount to murder and that every life, no matter how it was conceived, is precious. Victims of rape or incest would be able to have the pregnancy terminated and not feel coerced into motherhood. Moreover, the freedom of choice was considered a significant step in the equality fight for women in the country. For example, states could decide whether abortions were allowed only during the first and second trimester but not the third (typically beyond 28 weeks).Īmong pro-choice campaigners, the decision was hailed as a victory which would mean fewer women would become seriously – or even fatally – ill from abortions carried out by unqualified or unlicensed practitioners. The landmark ruling saw abortions decriminalized in 46 states, but under certain specific conditions which individual states could decide on. …nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law
In particular, that the Due Process Clause of the the 14th Amendment provides a fundamental ‘right to privacy’ that protects a woman’s liberty to choose whether or not to have an abortion. The Supreme Court handed down the watershed 7-2 decision that a woman’s right to make her own medical decisions, including the choice to have an abortion, is protected under the 14th Amendment. The case went on to the Supreme Court, under the filing Roe vs Wade, to protect McCorvey’s privacy. So McCorvey sued Henry Wade, the Dallas county district attorney, in 1970. The case was filed in 1971 by Norma McCorvey, a 22-year-old living in Texas who was unmarried and seeking a termination of her unwanted pregnancy.īecause of state legislation preventing abortions unless the mother’s life is at risk, she was unable to undergo the procedure in a safe and legal environment. The landmark ruling legalized abortion nationwide but divided public opinion and has been under attack ever since. Supreme Court recognized a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion in Roe v.
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