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What Is The Roe V. Wade Case

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The case, similarly to Roe v. Wade, went up against the same nine Supreme Court Justices: Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, Justice Harry Blackmun, Justice William O. Douglas, Justice William J. Brennan, Justice Potter Stewart, Justice Byron White, Justice Thurgood Marshall, Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr., and William Rehnquist (Doe v. Bolton, n.d.). Similarly to the Roe v. Wade case, Margie Pitts Hames represented Doe at the hearings while Georgia assistant attorney general Dorothy Toth Beasley represented Bolton. On January 22, 1973, the same 7-2 majority, with both Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justice Byron R. White disagreeing, that nullified a Texas abortion law in Roe v. Wade overruled most of the remaining restrictions of the Georgia

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