Excerpt from my 10th grade Government Cases final exam paper, on the Roe vs. Wade case:

The Roe vs. Wade ruling is one of the most controversial cases in recent American judicial history. Both passionate supporters and passionate opponents for abortion have emerged to fight this battle. But amid this uproar over the morality of abortion, the critical role of the Supreme Court has been misdirected. The focus of the case should not be whether abortion is moral; the case should focus on the constitutionality the Texas statutes that proscribed abortion. That is the purpose of judicial review; however, many fail to see this and simply assume that the controversy behind Roe vs. Wade is the same as the controversy behind abortion. Both pro-abortionists and their opponents should be opposed to this decision of the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court’s decision in Roe vs. Wade was based on the whim of 9 men in black robes and was completely unconstitutional, and the Court overstepped its bounds in fabricating such a result. (more…)