Roe versus WadeThe federal action against the District Attorney of Texas’ Dallas County was brought forward in 1970 by Jane Roe, a pregnant single woman from Texas. Roe challenged the constitutionality of the Texas criminal abortion laws, which prohibited termination of pregnancy unless necessary to save the mother’s life. She therefore claimed that the Texas laws were “unconstitutionally vague” and abridged her right to privacy. As per the article, Americans started demanding a change in abortion laws in the 1960s in the backdrop of the nascent feminist movement. Abortion laws around the worldIn 2012, an Indian woman living in Ireland, Savita Halappanavar, died in the hospital after she couldn’t get an abortion.

Source: Indian Express January 24, 2020 12:45 UTC