CLEP US History II

Answer: C - The U.S. Supreme Court decision protecting a woman’s right to terminate her pregnancy (before the developmental point of fetal viability) in Roe v. Wade (1973) was a polarizing verdict when it was handed down, and it has become increasingly divisive over time. Though the 1973 decision was a lopsided 7-2 in favor of protecting the right, the likely votes of almost every court since the mid-1980s have been much less favorable. Advocacy for a new Supreme Court case on termination rights (an effective retrial of Roe v. Wade) has been rampant in recent decades, and the ideologies of nominees to the Supreme Court have largely been defined by their likely votes if such a case were to be argued before them.