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  1. Roe v. Wade: Decision, Summary & Background | HISTORY

    Roe v. Wade was a landmark legal decision issued on January 22, 1973, in which the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Texas statute banning abortion, effectively legalizing the procedure...

  2. Roe v. Wade | Summary, Origins, Right to Privacy ...

    Roe v. Wade, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on January 22, 1973, ruled (7–2) that unduly restrictive state regulation of abortion is unconstitutional. The Court held that a set of Texas statutes criminalizing abortion in most instances violated a constitutional right to privacy.

  3. Roe v. Wade - Wikipedia

    Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), [1] was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States generally protected a right to have an abortion.

  4. ROE V. WADE: ITS HISTORY AND IMPACT - Planned Parenthood

    On January 22, 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court announced its decision in Roe v. Wade, a challenge to a Texas statute that made it a crime to perform an abortion unless a woman’s life was at stake. The case had been filed by “Jane Roe,” an unmarried woman who wanted to safely and legally end her pregnancy.

  5. The Framing of a Right to Choose: Roe v. Wade and the ... - JSTOR

    Roe and Doe. The Supreme Court's decision in Roe shifted the balance of rights- and policy-based arguments in pro-reform advocacy and minimized the role of population control in the abortion debate.88 Roe v. Wade involved a. Texas law that prohibited all abortions except those performed to save the.

  6. Equality Arguments for Abortion Rights - UCLA Law Review

    Roe v. Wade grounds constitutional protections for women’s decision wheth­er to end a pregnancy in the Due Process Clauses. 1 But in the four decades since Roe, the U.S. Supreme Court has come to recognize the abortion right as an equality right as well as a liberty right. In this Essay, we describe some distinctive features of equality ...

  7. Roe v. Wade | Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History

    Decided by the Supreme Court in 1973, Roe v. Wade legalized abortion across the United States. Roe struck down a Texas law banning abortions unless a woman’s life was in danger, while a companion case, Doe v. Bolton, invalidated a Georgia statute that heavily regulated access.

  8. Roe v. Wade (1973) - The National Constitution Center

    At a time when Texas law restricted abortions except to save the life of the mother, Jane Roe (a single, pregnant woman) sued Henry Wade, the local district attorney tasked with enforcing the abortion statute. She argued that the Texas law was unconstitutional.

  9. The Rhetoric That Shaped The Abortion Debate - NPR

    Before the Supreme Court struck down many state laws restricting abortion in the 1973 landmark case Roe v. Wade, the Justices read briefs from both abortion-rights supporters and opponents.

  10. Abortion, Roe v. Wade, and Pre-Dobbs Doctrine | Constitution ...

    Wade that the U.S. Constitution protects a woman’s decision to terminate her pregnancy. 1. The Court’s decision dramatically increased judicial oversight of legislation under the privacy line of cases, striking down aspects of abortion-related laws in numerous states, the District of Columbia, and the territories.