Title: Roe v. Wade Case Summary: What You Need to Know - FindLaw
Headings: Roe v. Wade Case Summary: What You Need to Know
Roe v. Wade Case Summary: What You Need to Know
Legal Arguments
Texas Defends Abortion Restriction
Roe Claims Absolute Privacy Rights for Women
How The Supreme Court Decided Roe v. Wade
Significance of Roe v Wade
Interesting Facts
Public Reactions
Related Cases
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Content: The constitutional right to privacy comes from the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The Due Process Clause does not explicitly state that Americans have a right to privacy. However, the Supreme Court has recognized such a right going all the way back to 1891. Just one year before Roe , the Supreme Court held that "in a Constitution for a free people, there can be no doubt that the meaning of 'liberty' must be broad indeed." In Roe v. Wade, the Court decided that this right to privacy extends to a woman's control over a pregnancy. The justices acknowledged that being forced to continue a pregnancy puts a lot at risk for women, such as: Physical health
Mental health
Financial burdens
Social stigma
The Court was skeptical of the state's argument that Constitutional protections begin at conception. The Constitution doesn't provide a definition of a "person." But, it does say that its protections cover those who are "born or naturalized" in the United States. After examining other cases relating to unborn children, the Court concluded that "the unborn have never been recognized in the law as persons in the whole sense."