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EPISODE · Jun 27, 2022 · 24 MIN

Supreme Court Ruling Roe VS Wade with Nicky Love aka Wunam

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Abortion was made legal across the US after a landmark legal ruling in 1973. In 1969, a 25-year-old single woman, Norma McCorvey using the pseudonym "Jane Roe", challenged the criminal abortion laws in Texas. The state forbade abortion as unconstitutional, except in cases where the mother's life was in danger. Defending the anti-abortion law was Henry Wade - the district attorney for Dallas County - hence Roe v Wade. Ms McCorvey was pregnant with her third child when she filed the case, and claimed that she had been raped. But the case was rejected and she was forced to give birth. In 1973 her appeal made it to the US Supreme Court, where her case was heard alongside that of a 20-year-old Georgia woman, Sandra Bensing. They argued that abortion laws in Texas and Georgia went against the US Constitution because they infringed a woman's right to privacy. By a vote of seven to two, the court justices ruled that governments lacked the power to prohibit abortions. They judged that a woman's right to terminate her pregnancy was protected by the US constitution. SPONSORED BY https://www.instagram.com/supremeoftheuk/?hl=en https://www.instagram.com/cfr_news/?hl=en

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