Question

roe v. wade (1973)
background
in the early 1960s, most states had laws prohibiting abortions that dated back to the second half of the nineteenth century. in the late 1960s and early 1970s, a few of those state laws were relaxed or repealed. in 1970, texas law still prohibited abortions except to save the life of the mother.
norma mccorvey was an unmarried, 23 - year - old texan who was pregnant. she wanted to terminate her pregnancy. other texan women in her position travelled to states where abortion was legal, but mccorvey said she could not afford to do that. her only option was a dangerous, illegal abortion. using the pseudonym \jane roe,\ she sued dallas district attorney henry wade, claiming the texas law violated her constitutional rights.
the case
roe argued that the texas law violated her personal privacy rights under the fourteenth amendment. wade countered that roe’s unborn child was also entitled to the protection of the fourteenth amendment, and that’s what the law provided.
roe relied on prior supreme court decisions to claim that the protection of specific aspects of personal autonomy in the first, fourth, fifth, and ninth amendments, when viewed together, creates a general
ight to privacy\—the right to keep the government out of personal affairs. she asserted that this right should be recognized as including the right for a woman to make the decision to terminate her pregnancy. wade pointed out that the right to privacy is never mentioned in the constitution. roe countered that according to the ninth amendment, the fact that a right is not mentioned in the constitution does not mean that people don’t have it.
summarize in one sentence

Explanation:

The case Roe v. Wade (1973) involved Norma McCorvey (using the pseudonym Jane Roe) suing Dallas District Attorney Henry Wade over Texas's abortion law, arguing it violated her constitutional rights to privacy under the Fourteenth Amendment, while Wade countered regarding the unborn child's rights, and Roe relied on prior Supreme Court decisions and the Ninth Amendment's implication of unmentioned rights.

Answer:

In Roe v. Wade (1973), Norma McCorvey (as Jane Roe) sued over Texas's abortion law, claiming violation of her Fourteenth - Amendment - based right to privacy (implied from prior cases and the Ninth Amendment), while Henry Wade countered about the unborn child's rights.