Roe v Wade is under threat, soon the decision that determines whether or not women have a right to have abortions and what it means if they cant.

At constitutioncenter.org it goes into the origins of Roe v Wade. In June 1969, Norma L. McCorvey found out that she was pregnant with her 3rd child, but she wanted to have an abortion. At the time Texas had only allowed women to get an abortion in the cases of rape, incest, or to save the mothers life. Norma tried to argue that she had been raped but there was no evidence to prove this, so she opted to find an illegal abortions clinic but unfortunately it had been shut down. Norma had gotten in touch with Linda Coffee and Sarah Weddington, two recent graduates of the University of Texas Law School, and they brought on a lawsuit for Norma, who now went by the ails “Jane Roe.” They claimed that the state violated her constitutional rights, and that she should be allowed to have a safe abortion preformed in a medial enviornment in her home state. he United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas agreed, and ruled that the Texas law violated Roe’s right to privacy found in the Ninth Amendment, and was therefore unconstitutional. Drawing on the First, Fourth, Ninth, and Fourteenth Amendments, the Court said that the Constitution protects an individual’s “zones of privacy.” other cases including, Younger v. Harris, United States v. Vuitch, and Doe v. Bolton had ruled that contraception, marriage, and child rearing were activities included in these “zones of privacy,” the Court found that the zone was “broad enough to encompass a woman’s decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.”

With Roe v. Wade under threat we have to look at what else is under threat. Griswold v. Connecticut decision in 1965, gave the right to contraception for married people and eventually everyone else. This includes birth control, emergency contraception, Plan B, fertility treatments, and more. Restricting or banning contraceptions means more people will get pregnant, and with abortions banned they have to carry the pregnancy to term, resulting in more babies which is ultimately what the U.S. government wants.

If a woman was to get an illegal abortion or a self preformed abortion it has a lot of risks including becoming a felon and death. Illegal abortions cause 1 in 6 pregnancy related deaths, but it is believed to be a higher number due to unknown reports. This number is expected to go up 20% in the event that Roe v Wade is overturned. Legal abortions have a 99% safety record and by the age 45. 

1 in 4 women have an abortion for a multitude of reasons, including the unreadiness to be a parent, financial situations, interference with school or work, partner difficulties, health issues, parents who already have had 1 or more kids, rape, incest, and more complicated reasons within those already standing reasons. 

Overturning Roe v. Wade will only imprison, harm, and kill women or put hundreds more kids into a very poor, unfair, broken  foster/adoption system where they will only face rape, abuse, neglect, and bad mental health.

Do not let the old white men overturn Roe v. Wade. Join ACLU-Online to receive updates about federal legislation, write letters, e-mails, and/or call your elected representatives, attend a lobbying school. more resources visit ACLU website,start/donate to an abortion fund, attend/organize a march, create/attend a pro-choice organization, vote and encourage others to vote, join/organize a clinic escort service, and assess your reproductive health with your providers.