Title: Roe v. Wade :: 410 U.S. 113 (1973) :: Justia US Supreme Court Center
Headings: Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973)
Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973)
Annotation
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Dissent
Dissent
Concurrence
Concurrence
Concurrence
Opinions Audio & Media
U.S. Supreme Court
Argued December 13, 1971
Reargued October 11, 1972
Decided January 22, 1973
410 U.S. 113
Syllabus

Content: (c) The Does' complaint, based as it is on contingencies, any one or more of which may not occur, is too speculative to present an actual case or controversy. Pp. 127-129. 3. State criminal abortion laws, like those involved here, that except from criminality only a life-saving procedure on the mother's behalf without regard to the stage of her pregnancy and other interests involved violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, which protects against state action the right to privacy, including a woman's qualified right to terminate her pregnancy. Though the State cannot override that right, it has legitimate interests in protecting both the pregnant woman's health and the potentiality of human life, each of which interests grows and reaches a "compelling" point at various stages of the woman's ap