Roe v. Wade is, put simply, the Supreme Court Case that legalized abortion throughout the United States. Yet the details of the case make it much, much more complicated. In a case brought by a Texas woman who had been unable to obtain an abortion either legally or illegally, Justice Harry Blackmun crafted a legal framework based on the trimesters of pregnancy, with abortion always being banned in the third trimester. This reasoning made the entire legal framework guaranteeing a right to privacy regarding abortion immensely confusing. Many people who agreed with the outcome thought it got there in a strange way. Blackmun's opinion, coupled with the dissenting opinion of Justice Byron White, would explode the discussion around abortion in the public and political sphere.