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Abortion timeline

By jonahdz
  • June 1969, Norma L. McCorvey discovered she was pregnant

  • Coffee and Weddington filed suit in a U.S. District Court in Texas

  • Roe v. Wade reached the Supreme Court on appeal

  • Arguments were scheduled by the full Court

  • Blackmun proposed that the case be reargued

  • The case was reargued

  • The Court issued its decision on with a 7-to-2 majority vote in favor of Roe