In 1970, Norma McCorvey, under the pseudonym “Jane Roe,” filed a law suit challenging the Texas laws that criminalized abortion. The “Roe” of that case is described as a pregnant woman who “wished to terminate her pregnancy by an abortion ‘performed by a competent, licensed physician, under safe, clinical conditions’; that she was unable to get a ‘legal’ abortion in Texas…” Her attorneys, looking to further their own agenda, claimed that the Texas statutes were unconstitutionally vague and that they abridged her right of personal privacy. Norma, who …
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