Do YOU know the answers?

1. Were there any women on the United States Supreme Court in 1973 when Roe v. Wade was decided?

2. Which of the following abortion restrictions have been struck down under the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision?

3. Which of the following Supreme Court justices have criticized the legal reasoning of Roe v. Wade?

4. What would happen if Roe v. Wade were overturned?

ANSWERS BELOW ………………….

1* Were there any women on the United States Supreme Court in 1973 when Roe v. Wade was decided?
Answer: No. No women were on the US Supreme Court until Justice Sandra Day O’Connor joined in 1981, which means no women were involved in the decision to legalize abortion in the U.S.

2* Which of the following abortion restrictions have been struck down under the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision?
Answer: All of these types of restrictions—5 month limits, sex-selective abortion bans, parental consent laws, and basic health and safety requirements for abortion facilities—have been overturned under the standards of Roe v. Wade.

3* Which of the following Supreme Court justices have criticized the legal reasoning of Roe v. Wade?
Answer: Clarance Thomas, Sandra Day O’Connor, and, perhaps surprisingly, even Ruth Bader Ginsburg have criticized the legal reasoning of Roe v. Wade. What’s more, many liberal legal scholars believe that the decision was poorly argued.

4* What would happen if Roe v. Wade were overturned?
Answer: Though many think overturning Roe v. Wade would mean the end of legal abortion in the US, in actuality, the authority to regulate abortion would be returned to the states. Each state would be free to craft its own policy, and our federal politics would be free from the quagmire of the abortion debate that has made cooperation between parties nearly impossible for decades.