Title: What is Roe v. Wade? Everything you need to know
Headings: What is Roe v. Wade? Everything you need to know
What is Roe v. Wade? Everything you need to know
Who was the plaintiff in Roe v. Wade?
What was the Supreme Court's decision?
What changed after Roe v. Wade?
What was the response?
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Content: What was the response? Reproductive rights activists hailed it as a victory that would result in significantly fewer women getting seriously — or even fatally — injured from abortions by unlicensed providers. Opponents contended it was tantamount to the murder of a fetus. Recommended
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These viewpoints are still passionately held. The decision has never been overturned, but in the years since, hundreds of state laws have been passed that restrict access to abortion and narrow the scope of the ruling, including the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act signed by President George W. Bush in 2003, which outlaws a procedure used to perform second-trimester abortions. In 2003, a motion to overturn the ruling was filed with the U.S. district court in Dallas by an unlikely character: McCorvey herself. What became of 'Jane Roe'? McCorvey was five months pregnant when she and her attorneys decided to sue. In June 1970, as the case worked its way through the legal system, her baby was born.