Roe v wade
... less restrictive criteria for person hood believe that the mother's rights outweigh any rights of the "potential" person that the fetus might become. Unfortunately, our U.S. Constitution provides no guidance for solving this debate. The U.S. Constitution only uses the word person in such a way that it has a postnatal application. Neither does the Constitution define what is morally right or wrong. Thus, it can only be concluded that the definition of fetus is really that of a personal belief grounded mostly in religious and secular views of when life begins rather than law. Henry Wade was the Dallas County Attorney that fought against the case and defended the anti-abortion laws. Jane Roe said these laws infringed her 9th and 14th amendment rights to privacy. The Dallas County attorney that defended the anti-abortion laws was well-known Henry Wade. His lawyers, Jay Floyd, John Tolle, and Robert Flowers presented their argument as, “it’s in the state’s best interest in protecting the fetus, to maintain an establishment as the beginning of life.” Henry Wade was the attorney that faced Jane Roe in Dallas County, Texas in 1970. It was Wade’s responsibility to enforce Texas laws within his jurisdiction, and Jane Roe lived in Dallas. Henry Wade was a diligent and respected attorney most widely known for prosecuting both Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby in the wake of President Kennedy’s assassination. So with his previous experiences he believed the Roe case had little merit. John Tolle focused primarily on the technical points of the law. Tolle built the remainder of his defense around the premise that the fetus, although unborn, was just as much as a human being as the woman in whose womb it existed. Therefore, the unborn child had equal rights and protections under the Constitution and the laws of the country. To support this argument in full, Tolle researched court decisions that had awarded damages, contingent upon live birth, to unborn fetuses injured in the womb. Jane Roe had once presented her case herself in the original court in Dallas County, Texas. But after, she realized she needed more help. She hired Linda Coffee, and Sarah Weddington. The...