The decision struck down many abortion laws, and caused an ongoing abortion debate in the United States about whether, or to what extent, abortion should be legal, who should decide the legality of abortion, and what the role of moral and religious views in the political sphere should be. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States generally protects a pregnant individual's "right" to have an abortion. 113 (1973), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Jackson Women's Health Organization (2022, in full)
Douglas īlackmun, joined by Burger, Douglas, Brennan, Stewart, Marshall, Powell Texas's statutes making it a crime to procure an abortion violated this "right".Ĭhief Justice Warren E. This "right" is not absolute, and has to be balanced against the government's interest in protecting women's health and protecting prenatal life.
Constitution provides a fundamental "right to privacy" that protects a pregnant woman's liberty to abort her fetus. The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. 1970) probable jurisdiction noted, 402 U.S. Judgment for plaintiffs, injunction denied, 314 F.
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