Title: Roe v. Wade :: 410 U.S. 113 (1973) :: Justia US Supreme Court Center
Headings: Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973)
Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973)
Annotation
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Dissent
Dissent
Concurrence
Concurrence
Concurrence
Opinions Audio & Media
U.S. Supreme Court
Argued December 13, 1971
Reargued October 11, 1972
Decided January 22, 1973
410 U.S. 113
Syllabus

Content: When Dallas resident Norma McCorvey found out that she was pregnant with her third child, she tried to falsely claim that she had been raped and then to obtain an illegal abortion. Both of these efforts failed, and she sought the assistance of Linda Coffee and Sarah Weddington, who filed a claim using the alias Jane Roe for McCorvey. ( The other named party, Henry Wade, was the District Attorney for Dallas County.) McCorvey gave birth to her child before the case was decided, but the district court ruled in her favor based on a concurrence in the 1965 Supreme Court decision of Griswold v. Connecticut, written by Justice Arthur Goldberg. This concurrence had found that there was a right to privacy based on the Ninth Amendment of the Constitution. However, the district court refrained from issuing an injunction to prevent the state from enforcing the law, leaving the matter unresolved. Attorneys
Linda Coffee (plaintiff)
Sarah Weddington (plaintiff)
Jay Floyd (defendant)
Issues & Holdings
Issue: Whether a plaintiff still has standing to bring a case based on her pregnancy once she has given birth. Holding: Yes.