by Caitlyn Obolsky, Esq.
Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973)
Roe v. Wade, is significant in many ways. Perhaps less obvious is the fact that in deciding to hear the case in the first place, the Supreme Court was making the affirmative decision to turn the abortion issue into something worthy of federal jurisprudence. Put another way, if the Court had decided to not hear the case, policy issues aside, abortion would have remained a state issue, much like marriage has historically been...
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