Title: Supreme Court Issues its Decision on Roe v Wade | World History Project
Headings: Supreme Court Issues its Decision on Roe v Wade
Supreme Court Issues its Decision on Roe v Wade
Content: “ The principal thrust of appellant's attack on the Texas statutes is that they improperly invade a right, said to be possessed by the pregnant woman, to choose to terminate her pregnancy. Appellant would discover this right in the concept of personal "liberty" embodied in the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause; or in personal, marital, familial, and sexual privacy said to be protected by the Bill of Rights or its penumbras ... or among those rights reserved to the people by the Ninth Amendment ... ”
Section VI surveys the history of abortion regulations, in eight subparts: 1. Ancient attitudes (including those of the Persian Empire, Greek times, the Roman era). 2. The Hippocratic oath. 3. The common law. 4.