Title: Roe v. Wade Case Brief
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Roe v. Wade
Roe v. Wade Summary
Key Players in Roe v. Wade
Roe v. Wade Brief
Roe v. Wade Facts
The Roe v. Wade Decision
Key Takeaways for Law Students

Content: It noted that physicians and patients should have broad discretion in deciding whether to terminate a pregnancy before the pregnancy gets to the point where it involves a compelling government interest. Applying that analysis to the Texas statute at issue, the Court concluded that the Texas law was “overbroad” because it did not allow for physicians and their patients to make termination decisions in the fragile early stages of a pregnancy and did not allow for other reasons for terminating a pregnancy. The Court concluded that valid government regulation of abortion takes place only after the first trimester and that, prior to that stage, denial of access to an abortion deprives citizens of fundamental liberties without due process of law. The Court left the decision of whether to impose an injunction on the state because, regardless, the state was obligated to recognize the Supreme Court’s holding that the law was unconstitutional and repeal the law (or adjust it to conform to the standards that the Court set out with respect to regulation in various stages of a pregnancy). Key Takeaways for Law Students
1 State laws which broadly allow a state to deny an abortion to a woman are unconstitutional because they violate the right to personal privacy included in the Fourteenth Amendment. 2 The privacy rights related to the right to choose to terminate a pregnancy are “not absolute”. They should be balanced against “important state interests in regulation”. Browse cases... Brown vs. Board of Education Buckley vs. Valeo Bush vs. Gore Dred Scott vs. Sandford Gibbons vs. Ogden Griswold vs. Connecticut Lawrence vs. Texas Loving vs. Virginia Mapp vs. Ohio Marbury vs. Madison McCulloch vs. Maryland Miranda vs. Arizona Obergefell vs. Hodges Plessy vs. Ferguson Roe vs. Wade Terry vs. Ohio