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Content: Weddington did not make that fact public during the court case. The case made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court in December 1971, but after initial arguments the court decided to have it reargued, to give new justices William Rehnquist and Lewis Powell the opportunity to hear the case. In October 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court heard the case again, and in January handed down its ruling, declaring the Texas state law banning abortion unconstitutional. PRIMARY SOURCE
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…. This right of privacy, whether it be founded in the Fourteenth Amendment 's concept of personal liberty and restrictions upon state action, as we feel it is, or, as the District Court determined, in the Ninth Amendment's reservation of rights to the people, is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy. The detriment that the State would impose upon the pregnant woman by denying this choice altogether is apparent. Specific and direct harm medically diagnosable even in early pregnancy may be involved. Maternity, or additional offspring, may force upon the woman a distressful life and future. Psychological harm may be imminent. Mental and physical health may be taxed by child care.