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  1. Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), 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.

  2. Jun 26, 2024 · 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. Jan 22, 2012 · Roe v. Wade: A person may choose to have an abortion until a fetus becomes viable, based on the right to privacy contained in the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Viability means the ability to live outside the womb, which usually happens between 24 and 28 weeks after conception.

  4. Mar 27, 2018 · 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...

  5. Wade (1973) The Supreme Court case that held that the Constitution protected a womans right to an abortion prior to the viability of the fetus. Overview. The case involved a Texas statute that prohibited abortion except when necessary to save the life of the pregnant woman.

  6. Jun 24, 2022 · Abortion was made legal across the US after a landmark legal ruling in 1973, often referred to as the Roe v Wade case. Now the US Supreme Court - the nation's most senior legal body - has...

  7. In 1970, Jane Roe (a fictional name used in court documents to protect the plaintiff’s identity) filed a lawsuit against Henry Wade, the district attorney of Dallas County, Texas, where she resided, challenging a Texas law making abortion illegal except by a doctor’s orders to save a woman’s life.

  8. May 4, 2022 · Roe v. Wade created the framework to govern abortion regulation based on the trimesters of pregnancy. In the first trimester, it allowed almost no regulations. In the second, it allowed...

  9. constitutioncenter.org › the-constitution › supreme-court-case-libraryRoe v. Wade | 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.

  10. Wade (1973) Overview: The case involved a Texas statute that prohibited abortion except when necessary to save the life of the pregnant person. The Supreme Court, in a decision written by Justice Blackmun, originally recognized a privacy interest in abortions.

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