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: The remedies Roe sought in filing her lawsuit against the state of Texas included a declaratory judgement deeming the anti-abortion law vague as well as unconstitutional and an injunction allowing abortions in Texas to proceed. The Texas state court found that the anti-abortion law was unconstitutional but refused to grant the injunction. The appeal to the Supreme Court concerned the state court’s refusal to grant the injunction. The Roe v. Wade Decision
The outcome of the case was a ruling in favor of the plaintiff and a determination that due process is denied to a woman when she is not allowed to elect to have an abortion other than in cases where her health is at stake. That is, the Court held that the Texas anti-abortion law violated the plaintiff’s right to privacy and, specifically, the “right” to “choose to terminate her pregnancy”. The Court, in its decision, started by examining the standing of the appellants to file the lawsuit. The Court found a “logical nexus between the status asserted and the claim sought to be adjudicated”, noting that Roe had standing based on her status as a single, pregnant woman who was denied access to an abortion based on the Texas anti-abortion law. It also noted that the fact that Roe’s pregnancy had already ended was irrelevant to the issue of standing because any pregnancy that is the subject of a lawsuit cannot be expected to last to the appellate stage of a case. In evaluating Roe’s argument that the Texas anti-abortion law violated her right to privacy included within the Fourteenth Amendment, the Court balanced the encroachment on the right to privacy involved in denying access to an abortion against the government interest supported by enforcing anti-abortion laws. Roe had argued for relief based on an alleged violation of her right to “personal, marital, familial, and sexual privacy" afforded to her by the Bill of Rights.