What is Roe v. Wade

The case is sometimes referred to simply as “Roe”, the listed name of the 22-year-old plaintiff, Norma McCorvey.

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‘Wade’ was the defendant Henry Wade, the Dallas County (Texas) district attorney at the time.

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Roe struck down laws that made abortion illegal in several states, and ruled that abortion would be allowed up to the point of foetal viability

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Foetal viability was around 28 weeks (7 months) at the time of the Roe judgment

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Experts now agree that advances in medicine have brought the threshold down to 23 or 24 weeks (6 months or a little less).

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In the draft opinion obtained by Politico, Alito has rejected Roe as “egregiously wrong from the start”, and held that both Roe and ‘Casey

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another landmark abortion judgment of the court from 1992 that reaffirmed the central tenet of Roe

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women have the right to terminate pregnancies up to the point of foetal viability — “must be overruled”.

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It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives”.

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“The inescapable conclusion is that a right to abortion is not deeply rooted in the Nation’s history and traditions,” Alito has written.

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