Women Empowerment: The Roe V. Wade Case

When the Supreme Court ruled in 1973, that autonomous abortion rights are written into the Constitution, it gave all the mothers the right to decide whether she wanted to proceed with an abortion, for any reason at all. With that being said, states have begun to make it more difficult to access abortion services by putting more restrictions in place, in hopes that the number of women thinking of abortion will decrease. These restrictions range from requiring abortions after 15 weeks to be provided in a licensed surgical center to requiring providers to have expensive ultrasound equipment on-site (Jones, Henshaw, Finer, & Zolna,

Annotated Bibliography Alvargonzález, D. (2017). Knowledge and attitudes about abortion among undergraduate students. Psicothema, 29(5), 520-526. doi:10.7334/psicothema2017.58 This journal explains the process of a study done at the University of Oviedo concerning attitudes towards abortion. A total of 1025 undergraduate students were studied in September and December of 2015. They were surveyed and placed into two groups: anti-abortion and pro-abortion.

Some women believe abortions are giving them rights but having an abortion is not the only way. Adoption is a much better option over abortion. An unwanted or unplanned pregnancy can scare some. This leads many rushing into abortion looking for a “‘quick fix.’” The American Adoption Agency stated, “...for every 149 women who choose abortion, only one woman chooses adoption” (American Adoptions, Inc). The percentage of infants being put up for adoption has decreased from 90,000 in 1971 to 18,000 in 2007.

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The Roe vs. Wade case was started by a young woman named Norma McCorvey, better known to the public as Jane Roe. Norma McCorvey was one of many women who wanted to get an abortion, but couldn’t. In the state of Texas getting an abortion was considered a crime. In 1969, Norma McCorvey discovered she was pregnant at 21 years old. McCorvey was unmarried, and already had a 5 year old daughter.

Jennifer Hudak. “The Social Inventor : Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the (Re) Production of Perfection.” Women’s Studies 32.4 (0): 455–477. Web. Lipin, Lawrence. “Muller v. Oregon (1908).” The Oregon Encyclopedia, 7 July 2017, doi:10.3897/bdj.4.e7720.figure2f.

The Witches of Salem: Diabolical doings in a Puritan village. The New Yorker, 7 September 2015, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/09/07/the-witches-of-salem. Miller, Arthur. The Crucible. https://www.cusd80.com/cms/lib6/AZ01001175/Centricity/Domain/4860/The%20Crucible_full%20text_adobe_format.pdf “McCarthyism.” US History, vol.

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Before the Battle of the Sexes between BIllie Jean King and Bobby Riggs, Billie Jean King felt very compelled to not only play but defeat Bobby Riggs in order to prove to the world that tennis was not just a white male dominated sport. With Billie Jean King doing this, it fueled her fight for women’s equal rights even more (Naify). And for Billie Jean King’s fight for women’s equal rights she received a Presidential Medal of Freedom from Barack Obama on August 12, 2009

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In today’s culture, a main topic of controversy is abortion. Abortion has been around since the late 1800s and has become more popular through the years. There are two sides that associate with abortion, pro-life and pro-choice. These two sides show women the reasons they should or should not have abortions. Because of abortions, the debate between the pro-choice and pro-life advocates has progressed in the sense of intensity and has affected many women in this generation.