The Rocky Road to Roe v. Wade

Kathy Copeland Padden
4 min readJun 6, 2019
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On January 22, 1973, the United States Supreme Court handed down its landmark decision in the case of Roe v. Wade. This established that the constitutional right to privacy included a person’s right to make their own medical decisions.

Therefore, the ruling meant a woman choosing to have an abortion must be able to do so without interference from the government.

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Kathy Copeland Padden

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