Roe v. Wade

 

Supreme Court hearing

made abortion legalized -

safe women's healthcare.

Image by BenediktGeyer from Pixabay.

Resources on 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 protects a pregnant woman's liberty to choose to have an abortion without excessive government restriction."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roe_v._Wade

Planned Parenthood - 

"At the time the decision was handed down, nearly all states outlawed abortion except to save a woman’s life or for limited reasons such as preserving the woman’s health, or instances of rape, incest, or fetal anomaly. Roe rendered these laws unconstitutional, making abortion services vastly safer and more accessible to women throughout the country."

https://www.plannedparenthood.org/files/3013/9611/5870/Abortion_Roe_History.pdf

Britannica - 

"In a majority opinion written by Justice Harry A. Blackmun, the Court held that a set of Texas statutes criminalizing abortion in most instances violated a woman’s constitutional right of privacy, which it found to be implicit in the liberty guarantee of the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment (“…nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law”)."

https://www.britannica.com/event/Roe-v-Wade

The White House's Statement -

"We must ensure that our daughters and granddaughters have the same fundamental rights that their mothers and grandmothers fought for and won on this day, 49 years ago—including leaders like the late Sarah Weddington, whose successful arguments before the Supreme Court led to the landmark Roe v. Wade decision in 1973."

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/01/22/statement-by-president-joe-biden-and-vice-president-kamala-harris-on-the-49th-anniversary-of-roe-v-wade/

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