Title: Roe v. Wade - Wikipedia
Headings: Roe v. Wade
Roe v. Wade
Contents
Background
History of abortion laws in the United States
History of the case
Issues before the Supreme Court
Oral arguments and initial discussions
Drafting the opinion
Supreme Court decision
Opinion of the Court
Standing
Abortion and right to privacy
Concurrences
Dissents
Reception
Political
Support
Opposition
Legal
Public opinion
Role in subsequent decisions and politics
Webster v. Reproductive Health Services
Planned Parenthood v. Casey
Stenberg v. Carhart
Gonzales v. Carhart
Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt
Activities of Norma McCorvey
Activities of Sarah Weddington
Presidential positions
State laws regarding Roe
See also
Footnotes
References
Further reading
External links

Content: The defendant in the case was Dallas County District Attorney Henry Wade, who represented the State of Texas. McCorvey was no longer claiming her pregnancy was a result of rape, and later acknowledged that she had lied about having been raped, in hope to circumvent a Texas law that banned abortions except when the woman's life is in danger. " Rape" is not mentioned in the judicial opinions in the case. On June 17, 1970, a three-judge panel of the District Court, consisting of Northern District of Texas Judges Sarah T. Hughes, William McLaughlin Taylor Jr. and Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Irving Loeb Goldberg, unanimously declared the Texas law unconstitutional, finding that it violated the right to privacy found in the Ninth Amendment. In addition, the court relied on Justice Arthur Goldberg 's 1965 concurrence in Griswold v. Connecticut. The court, however, declined to grant an injunction against enforcement of the law. Issues before the Supreme Court
Oral arguments and initial discussions
Roe v. Wade reached the Supreme Court on appeal in 1970. The justices delayed taking action on Roe and a closely related case, Doe v. Bolton, until they had decided Younger v