Roe v. Wade (1973) by Benjamin Sheorn https://padlet.com/bsheor6992/lgtoof1zvazg3kwr Made with a creative frenzy en-us 2020-11-21 22:05:15 UTC 2025-11-18 10:44:30 UTC hello@padlet.com Background Information bsheor6992 https://padlet.com/bsheor6992/lgtoof1zvazg3kwr/wish/948687900 In 1970, Jane Roe (a fictional name used in court documents to protect the plaintiff’s identity) filed a lawsuit against Henry Wade, the district attorney of Dallas County, Texas, where she resided, challenging a Texas law making abortion illegal except by a doctor’s orders to save a woman’s life. In her lawsuit, Roe alleged that the state laws were unconstitutionally vague and abridged her right of personal privacy, protected by the First, Fourth, Fifth, Ninth, and Fourteenth Amendments.]]> 2020-11-21 22:07:25 UTC https://padlet.com/bsheor6992/lgtoof1zvazg3kwr/wish/948687900 Oral Arguments bsheor6992 https://padlet.com/bsheor6992/lgtoof1zvazg3kwr/wish/948764173 2020-11-21 23:32:36 UTC https://padlet.com/bsheor6992/lgtoof1zvazg3kwr/wish/948764173 Question Supreme Court was Attempting to Answer bsheor6992 https://padlet.com/bsheor6992/lgtoof1zvazg3kwr/wish/948764290 Does the Constitution recognize a woman's right to terminate her pregnancy by abortion?]]> 2020-11-21 23:32:48 UTC https://padlet.com/bsheor6992/lgtoof1zvazg3kwr/wish/948764290 Majority Opinion of Court bsheor6992 https://padlet.com/bsheor6992/lgtoof1zvazg3kwr/wish/948764486 It was a 7-2 decision. Justice Harry Blackmun wrote the Majority Opinion. Most judges thought that women should have the right to be able to choose to have an abortion.]]> 2020-11-21 23:33:07 UTC https://padlet.com/bsheor6992/lgtoof1zvazg3kwr/wish/948764486 Dissenting and Concurring Opinions bsheor6992 https://padlet.com/bsheor6992/lgtoof1zvazg3kwr/wish/948764632 Some people did not agree that abortions should be a woman's right as they said that abortions were not ethical.]]> 2020-11-21 23:33:19 UTC https://padlet.com/bsheor6992/lgtoof1zvazg3kwr/wish/948764632 Significance of this Case bsheor6992 https://padlet.com/bsheor6992/lgtoof1zvazg3kwr/wish/948764794 It said that the government had to protect the rights for women to choose to have an abortion. This impacts us today because many women around the nation choose to have abortions every day, and a lot of people think it is not ethical.]]> 2020-11-21 23:33:33 UTC https://padlet.com/bsheor6992/lgtoof1zvazg3kwr/wish/948764794 Members of the Burger Court: bsheor6992 https://padlet.com/bsheor6992/lgtoof1zvazg3kwr/wish/948875024 Warren E. Burger (Chief Justice)
William O. Douglas
William J. Brennan, Jr.
Potter Stewart
Byron R. White
Thurgood Marshall
Harry A. Blackmun
Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
William H. Rehnquist]]> 2020-11-22 02:26:36 UTC https://padlet.com/bsheor6992/lgtoof1zvazg3kwr/wish/948875024 Judicial Activism bsheor6992 https://padlet.com/bsheor6992/lgtoof1zvazg3kwr/wish/948881842 This is an example of judicial activism because the court was trying to pass a law to benefit the people.]]> 2020-11-22 02:37:45 UTC https://padlet.com/bsheor6992/lgtoof1zvazg3kwr/wish/948881842