Life Matters

Roe v. Wade didn’t give women anything. What it did do is give doctors the right to kill babies. “Roe really isn’t about the woman’s choice... It’s about the doctor’s freedom to practice his profession as he thinks best.It was not woman centered. It was physician centered.” - Ruth Bader Ginsburg, University of Chicago lecture May 10, 2013 The media doesn’t tell you this. Very few people understand Roe. It is in fact an amalgam of two separate decisions that were then ‘conjoined’ by the Court. Roe v. Wade addressed a Texas law. Doe v. Bolton dismissed the abortion laws of Georgia. On Jan 22nd, 1973, they were both handed down simultaneously and “conjoined” by the Court as one ruling. Many now call this conjoined action “Roe” or “the Roe regime.” Though they dealt with two different states, and each has very different tone, the net effect of the combined decision was to strike down not only those two states’ laws, but the laws of every other state as well! In the Doe portion of the decision, the author, Justice